As part of the research, ABI looked at a range of criteria including developer support, diversity of product portfolio, edge-based solutions, operational knowledge, breadth of solution partners, customer references, number of employees, revenue, and market potential.
Mirroring Audio Analytic's own consumer research on the smart home, hearables, TWS earbuds and smartphone markets, ABI also concluded that the demand for this type of technology was growing: “consumers are looking for smarter consumer devices that can recognize and react to surrounding scenes and individual sound sources.”
Demand from the market has increased dramatically to the point now where leading tech companies recognise why the broader capability of machine listening (beyond just speech) is as important as machine vision to their future plans.
While Audio Analytic say that it's great to be recognised publicly by such a key player as ABI, their conclusions aren’t surprising to Audio Analytic. The team knows from their own commercial and technological achievements that their software delivers the best user experiences in the most resource and power-efficient way because of their dedication to accuracy, robustness and compactness right through their ML pipeline.
Audio Analytic's technical leadership means that they work with – and have licensed their software to – many of the world’s leading consumer tech companies, helping them to explore how a greater sense of hearing can create exceptional human experiences. Given the nature of their work, they can’t often share who they are working with, which is why these 3rd party public declarations of leadership are appreciated.
You can read more about ABI’s report here.