Sensory Chips Add New Interactive And Robotic Features


Beat detection, beat prediction, sound sourcing, sing back and talk back
technologies now available on leading speech recognition IC

Las Vegas, NV, January 5, 2006-----Sensory, Inc., the world leader in
embedded speech technology, today announces the availability of new audio
technologies running on Sensory's RSC-4x platform. These new technologies
give consumer electronic products extraordinary conversational and
interactive capabilities.

New Technologies Enhance Robotics and Interactive Creatures
Now the RSC platform can implement a variety of new technologies that are
great for robotics and interactive creatures:
* Beat detection. Picking up the amplitude of different sounds in the room
as they occur and reacting to them with a movement or display function
* Beat prediction. Chip figures out the recurring beat to know how to act
moving forward (great for dancing and motion oriented products).
* Sound sourcing. Adding a second microphone allows the RSC processor to
locate the sound of a human voice. * Talk-back. The RSC can produce speech
in response to your talking or inquiries that appears to be conversational
speech from a non-human creature.
* Pitch detection. A human pitched voice can be analyzed by the RSC
processor to figure out the pitches being sung.
* Sing back. Combining talkback and pitch detection allows a robotic
creature or avatar to imitate a person singing.

RSC-4X Platform Provides Powerful, Economical Speech Recognition

Sensory's RSC-4x product is the worlds best selling speech recognition
chip. With its FluentChip(tm) technology it is capable of recognizing
dozens of speaker independent words or phrases in a single set, and can
also recognize speaker dependent recognition words (customized by the user)
or perform speaker verification for biometric security. Shipping products
in the RSC-4x line include the RSC-4128 and the RSC-464, with 128KB and
64KB ROM respectively. These chips not only "talk and hear", but they have
an embedded microcontroller that can act as the brain for consumer
electronic products, and they record speech, or play back high quality MIDI
or digital music. Development is fast and easy with Sensory's award winning
QuickTools for vocabulary creation standard micro programming tools
(C-compiler, assembler, debugger, etc.) and embedded hardware platforms
such as the VR Stamp(tm).
About Sensory

Sensory, Inc., (www.sensoryinc.com) is the world leader in embedded speech
technologies. Sensory is a profitable private company offering a complete
line of IC and software-only solutions for speech recognition, speech
synthesis, speaker verification, music synthesis and more. The company's
products are widely deployed in consumer electronics applications including
telephones, home automation, toys, remote controls, automotive, security,
and learning aids. Sensory's customers represent the leaders in consumer
electronics, including such companies as Hasbro, JVC, Kenwood, Mattel,
Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Uniden and Sony. Additional Sensory offices are
located in Portland, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Vienna.

Editorial Contacts:

Tom Tolbert
408/625-3339
ttolbert@3dmsg.com

KPR, Inc.
David Kaye or Roni Kaye 818/368-8212
dave@kprinc.com or roni@kprinc.com

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