Tools

Tools that help to craft features and optimize performance enable product makers to focus on delivering remarkable Audio Experiences to consumers.

 

Rapid Audio Prototyping Device

(RAPID)

RAPID is a complete design and evaluation system for voice features that includes customizable microphone arrays that work with off-the-shelf soundcards and the Audio Weaver platform

Benefits
• Works in real-time
• Reduces risk early in the product development cycle
• Simplifies the evaluation of voice processing
• Accelerates time-to-market
Applications
• Microphone geometry and placement
• Multi-channel audio data acquisition
• Algorithm development, selection, and evaluation
• System level design validation
Components
• Designed to be used with an off-the-shelf sound card
• All audio I/O is synchronized
• Expandable to 16 microphones and 64 in / 64 out analog I/O
• USB drivers for both Windows and Linux

RAPID Kit Components

RAPID Audio Prototyping Device
 

Real-time Audio System Check (R-TASC)

An audio system problem identification and debugging process supported in Audio Weaver designed to verify hardware performance, software performance, and functionality

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Provides visibility and access to:
  • All aspects of the system
  • All signals in real-time
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    Identifies issues related to:
    • Software integration
    • Microphone and loudspeaker assembly
    Tests advanced processing chains
    Tests advanced processing chains to:
    • Get visibility into multi-channel feedback paths for AEC
    • Inspect signal integrity before ASRs and ML blocks
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    Eliminates the need to:
    • Use specialized interfaces and audio workstations
    • Interfere with the operation of the audio system

    Real-time Troubleshooting

    Microphones

    • Noise floor
    • Acoustic overload point
    • Spurious harmonics
    • High frequency rejection
    • Isolation / porting
    • Conducted sound
    • Gain mismatch
    • Time synchronization

    Loudspeakers

    • Nonlinearities and distortion
    • Coupling between loudspeakers and microphones
    • Enclosure resonance

    System

    • Mic and playback clock stability
    • Fixed latency through system
    • CPU load
    • Audio buffer over and underruns
    • Dropped samples

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