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Today’s phones have evolved a lot, from old dial phones to brick mobile phones and now smartphones. Modern smartphones encourages communication through e-mail and text messaging, but voice is still an important component.

So, in order to enhance the voice quality in smartphones, CEVA (News - Alert), Inc., a licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores and NXP Software, a company in mobile multimedia software have partnered to offer an enhanced HD voice processing solution for the smartphone market.

This HD voice processing solution is developed by integrating NXP Software's (News - Alert) market-leading LifeVibes VoiceExperience software with the CEVA-TeakLite family of DSPs, including the CEVA-TeakLite-4.

"There is a clear trend towards enhanced voice quality in smartphones today, combining advanced hardware and software techniques, including voice pre-processing and new multi-microphone configurations to reduce background noise and improve voice clarity," said Nicolas Sauvage, director of Marketing and Sales at NXP Software. "The CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP delivers outstanding performance for these demanding applications, allowing our customers to gain maximum benefit from our VoiceExperience software package, and at lower power consumption."

Under this partnership, NXP Software has optimized its industry-leading technologies in speakerphone and multi-microphone noise suppression, acoustic echo cancellation and voice quality, onto the world's most popular DSP platform that has powered audio/voice processing in more than two billion devices to date.

"We are pleased to collaborate with NXP Software, a world renowned provider of advanced voice applications. Our CEVA-TeakLite DSP family has become the industry standard for advanced audio and voice SoC solutions thanks in part to the large, robust partner ecosystem providing support for such advanced audio and voice applications," said in a statement, Eran Briman, vice president of marketing at CEVA. "With the LifeVibes VoiceExperience software optimized for our latest CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP, we have significantly enhanced the HD voice processing capabilities available to product developers today."