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
• Reduces risk early in the product development cycle
• Simplifies the evaluation of voice processing
• Accelerates time-to-market
• Multi-channel audio data acquisition
• Algorithm development, selection, and evaluation
• System level design validation
• 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

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

- All aspects of the system
- All signals in real-time

• Microphone and loudspeaker assembly

• Inspect signal integrity before ASRs and ML blocks

• 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