NXP HD Voice Processing Smartphone Software Available For Tensilica’s HiFi Audio / Voice DSPs

Over 50 companies have licensed Tensilica’s HiFi DSP family, and they’ve shipped over 200 million HiFi DSP cores in their smartphones, tablets, computers, digital televisions, home entertainment systems, and other devices.

“The Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSP family combines an efficient, low-power architecture with robust and well-supported development tools,” stated Nicolas Sauvage, OEM Business Line Director, NXP Software. “Combined with our LifeVibes VoiceExperience software, we offer a complete solution for leading OEMs who wants to offer the highest quality voice enhancements for clear, natural calling.”

“A number of our licensees have asked for LifeVibes VoiceExperience support on HiFi because they’ve already designed HiFi into their products and need better voice enhancement support. We are excited to offer our mutual customers this optimized software package, as it is proven in over 750 million handsets and tablets,” stated Larry Przywara, Tensilica’s senior director of mobile multimedia. “By fully optimizing it for our HiFi architecture, designers can be assured of the lowest power, most efficient yet premium voice experience.”

LifeVibes VoiceExperience is HD Voice compliant, and enables natural, comfortable communication over phone networks and IP-based channels such as Skype and Google Talk. It improves the intelligibility of speech, eliminates echoes and distortion, and minimizes stationary and non-stationary background noise (such as traffic or crowds), using one or more microphones.

Tensilica’s HiFi Audio/Voice DSP family includes four cores. The recently introduced HiFi Mini is an ultra-low-power DSP optimized for always-on voice recognition. HiFi 2 and HIFi EP are the mainstream products for efficient audio and voice processing. HiFi 3 adds additional optimizations for mobile wireless, home entertainment, and automotive.