Sensory Finds a Home at CES

Sensory’s  speech recognition technologies for consumer electronics are being incorporated into new products from at least a dozen companies,  the company announced yesterday at the CES Show.From Bluetooth headsets and hands-free car kits to clock radios, remote controls and iPod docks, Sensory is simplifying and enriching the interaction between humans and consumer electronics products.

“The visibility of Sensory’s technologies at this year’s CES demonstrates the growing trend for improving the user interface of consumer electronics,” said Sensory CEO Todd Mozer. “While Apple’s iPhone and iPod and Nintendo’s Wii have brought capacitive and resistive sensing, gyroscopes, and accelerometers to the forefront of the user interface design, Sensory is pushing the paradigm one step further by enabling consumer electronics manufacturers to incorporate speech command and control and voice user interface functionality into their offerings.”

During CES,  companies showing products with Sensory's speech technologies include:

• Southern Telecom – Clock radio product;
• BlueAnt – Bluetooth headsets including the V1 and TBA with BlueGenie voice interface;
• Bluetrek –– Crescendo, a new dual-mic noise filter Bluetooth Headset with BlueGenie;
• Flaircomm – Hands free kit design with voice control and caller ID by voice;
• GG Telecom – iVoice Bluetooth headsets with BlueGenie Voice Interface;
• Griffin International - A voice recognition user interface on an iPod docking clock radio;
• Innovative Technology - Lifestyle consumer electronics with voice interfaces to include a travel alarm clock, bedside clock, and clock with iPod dock;
• Musical Electronics - A Voice Controlled iPod Dock Alarm Clock;
• Neutrano – Introducing their Nutech productline with the iTalk clock;
• Powermate will show the new low-cost BlueFox headset with BlueGenie voice control;
• SNS International – Hello Moshi time and weather desktop clock that listens for voice commands;
• Spectra Merchandising International - An alarm clock radio with natural time set by voice; and
  
• STEP Labs – Hands-free car kit with STEPvoice on Sensory’s RSC chips.

Last year’s CES saw the announcement of Sensory’s first BlueGenie customer, BlueAnt, with a V1 headset. Sensory now has more than eight designs in process with its BlueGenie Voice Interface.

According to Taisen Maddern, CEO of BlueAnt Wireless, “We are very happy with the success of the BlueAnt V1 Voice Control Bluetooth headset. Our customers have repeatedly told us that the BlueGenie Voice Interface on the V1 is an excellent addition to the quality features used in BlueAnt products. We have decided to include BlueGenie in many of our new products, including a new Voice Control Bluetooth headset which prominently features BlueGenie and already is being phenomenally received by our retail channel partners.”