Voice and AI Explosion Rocks CES EE Times

Voice, connectivity and AI took center stage at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. If this year's CES is any indication, these three building blocks will compose the holy trinity of consumer electronics devices that will drive the market in 2018 and further into the future. Voice assistants are now poised to move into wearables, headphones, baby monitors, lamps, TV remotes and vehicles. Paul Beckmann, founder and chief technology officer of DSP Concepts, told EE Times, "We are witnessing a Cambrian explosion around voice." At CES, Baidu, known as "China's Google," shouted out most loudly for voice by unveiling and opening to developers its Duer OS-based platform.