Sensory releases BlueGenie Lite ‘Speech Output Only’ for Bluetooth Devices

Sensory has released the BlueGenie Lite, a speech output solution for Bluetooth devices running on CSR’s multimedia-bluetooth chipsets,  the BlueCore 5 and also BlueCore 3. Main difference between the BlueGenie Lite version and complete BlueGenie Voice Interface (released in last fall) is: the BlueGenie Lite version focus on voice output only, enabling voice prompt and menus to improve usability of Bluetooth hands-free car kits and Bluetooth headsets.

Sensory’s BlueGenie Voice Interface

Todd Mozer, Sensory, Inc., said:

We see simple voice menus and prompts taking over as the desired user interface of the lower end Bluetooth headset market over the next several years. BlueGenie Lite enables a dramatic improvement in user friendliness with minimal impact on headset cost… For more feature-rich headsets, we expect our BlueGenie Voice Interface to continue its lead and become the dominant solution for the most user-friendly ‘eyes-free and hands-free’ headset experiences possible.

BlueGenie Lite replaces traditionally confusing beeps and flashing lights on Bluetooth headsets with a pleasant, high quality human voice that speaks in the user’s language of choice. The architecture includes multiple language capabilities and also provides for customized accents or personalities (for example, the voice of a teen idol could be used as interface for a product targeting teens). Headset manufacturers can easily implement these features to enable fast differentiation and appeal to a broad range of geographies and customers worldwide.

Sensory’s BlueGenie Lite is optimized for cost-sensitive headset solutions. This speech output solution facilitates an intuitive voice menu and prompts-based user interface. BlueGenie Lite can be easily navigated to select key operations such as storing a quick-dial number,  redialing the last caller, reestablishing a lost connection and checking the battery level. Another popular feature is enabling the headset to speak the caller ID phone number or name of an incoming call.

BlueGenie Lite is developed based on Sensory’s SX technology (compression and synthesis). BlueGenie Lite balances the need to provide a high quality, natural sounding headset voice with the need to reign in costs by offering an innovative technology that is lower in data and processing requirements and less expensive than text-to-speech solutions, while providing substantially higher quality. Implementation with 20 seconds of prompts requires approximately 27 Kbytes of code/constant memory and 2 Kbytes data RAM, which allows the complete solution to fit into most headset systems.

More info about BlueGenie Lite can be found at Sensory Inc