Alexa voice service solution is OEM ready
Stephen Law
Automation / Robotics Electronics Alexa Alexa service Service smart audio smart audio voice voiceNXP SLN-ALEXA-IOT MCU-based Alexa voice service (AVS) solution provides OEMs with a fully integrated, self-contained, software and hardware solution that includes both the MCU and a smart audio amplifier with speaker protection. The i.MX RT106A solution enables system designers to easily add voice control capabilities to a wide variety of smart appliances, smart home, smart retail, and smart industry applications. Device is based on an Arm Cortex-M7 with 1 MB SRAM, and comes fully integrated with Alexa built-in software and a machine learning audio front end (AFE) for far-field voice. MCU based implementation lowers design and cost complexity, up to 50% BOM reduction compared to MPU based implementations.