Hi Auto’s speech-enhancement and speaker-separation system eliminates challenging background noises and focuses only on the speaker.
“Change lanes,” you tell the voice control in your next-generation semi-autonomous car.
“Did you say drive to the train?” the voice responds.
That’s not a conversation you want to have while trying to exit a busy highway. But if the interior of your car is noisy – radio blaring, kids fighting in the backseat, an ambulance siren nearby or heavy rain pounding the windshield – the microphone in your car may simply not be good enough, even with noise-cancelling software.
The solution, says Roy Baharav, CEO of Israeli startup Hi Auto, is to combine the microphone with a camera that watches the speaker’s lips move.
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