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Ever since Qualcomm Technologies first announced always-on device activation in early 2013, we have seen an industry-wide adoption of always-on voice services. These services rely on waking up the device using a preset phrase such as “Hey, Snapdragon,” and then sending raw speech to the cloud, where actual recognition is done and the response formulated.
This raises a number of legitimate privacy questions:
Who doesn’t love robots? Most of us only get to see them in TV or movies, but if you’re lucky, you might get to work with them every day, and even be in a position to help other people learn to love robots as much as you do. For Thomas Eng, an engineer at Manchester, New Hampshire-based US FIRST, he gets to share his joy for robotics with young people around the world.
Here’s a guest post from Ken Johnson, national director for First Tech Challenge. FTC is a program of local events in which students in grades 7 through 12 design, build and program robots to compete against other teams. This year’s kickoff is on September 12, when FTC’s “Sport for the Mind” extends to software development on Android and the Snapdragon™ processor.
What are you doing to create the next generation of developers?
Video processing. Computer vision.
You can handle tasks like these on the CPU, but with a powerful and efficient Hexagon™ 680 DSP in the chipset, why would you want to?
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