Applied Brain Research (ABR) has announced the general availability of its speech AI software development kit (SDK) for Zephyr RTOS on the Alif Semiconductor Ensemble family of edge AI processors. The software enables streaming automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis to run entirely on-device, without requiring a cloud connection. It is designed for low-power embedded applications, including battery-operated and air-gapped products. The SDK combines two speech technologies. Niagara ASR (automatic speech recognition) provides low-latency, full-vocabulary streaming speech recognition, continuously converting spoken input into text as it is received. Nith TTS…