Voice control everywhere
From: MIT News - 02/13/2017

Low-power special-purpose chip could make speech recognition ubiquitous in
electronic

MIT researchers have built a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech
recognition. Whereas a cellphone running speech-recognition software might
require about 1 watt of power, the new chip requires between 0.2 and 10
milliwatts, depending on the number of words it has to recognize. In a
real-world application, that probably translates to a power savings of 90 to
99 percent, which could make voice control practical for relatively simple
electronic devices.

Read the entire article at:
http://news.mit.edu/2017/low-power-chip-speech-recognition-electronics-0213

Links:
Anantha Chandrakasan
http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~anantha

Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems
http://www-mtl.mit.edu/researchgroups/icsystems