The new microchip will allow you to equip even the smallest devices with a speech recognition function

Today we all have become accustomed to the fact that our mobile devices have voice assistants with speech recognition, and many applications on smartphones have this feature. However, few people thought about the fact that this option is quite heavily load the CPU of the device, consuming while using about 1 Watt of energy.
 
Such high power allows you to embed a function in an extremely small size of the device, but that could change thanks to a new specialized chip developed by scientists and engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of technology. Their development, depending on the speed of speech, consumes of 0.2-10 MW power, 100 times less than the current indicators. The use of a new type of chip will give you the opportunity to save up to 90% battery life when using voice control.
 
his type is ideal when using “smart” watches and other wearable electronics as “normal” control scheme on small devices is difficult. When creating a new chip experts of mit in the development of faced with a fairly serious problem. The fact is that when the voice recognition data is used, the volume of which far exceeds the internal memory of the chip, and if you connect an external memory increases the power consumption of the device.
 
The problem was solved through the use of special algorithms of information compression and structure optimization of the chip, which allowed to minimize the number of accesses to the external storage system. A sample of the device was demonstrated in the framework of the International conference on solid state circuits (International Solid-State Circuits Conference).

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