Qualcomm Smart Headset: for smart headphones with Alexa
The Qualcomm Smart Headset development platform will allow you to make headsets and headphones with Bluetooth connectivity that will allow you to manage the Amazon Alexa digital assistant that can be integrated natively.
Amazon Alexa has arrived on the market, so that Qualcomm intends to improve the integration with this digital assistant could also interest the users of our country. The US company plans to build the Qualcomm Smart Headset platform to allow OEM to create headsets and headphones with their own assistant Alexa.
With the increasingly widespread diffusion of headphones and earphones connected via Bluetooth (also due to the removal of the audio jack from smartphones), having additional features is another way to stand out in the market. We saw it with Apple and Siri and also with Google and Assistant and of course with Amazon and Alexa.
The Qualcomm Smart Headset platform revolves around the Qualcomm QCC5100 SoC that serves the management of Bluetooth connectivity and more. With the arrival of the reference design, it will be easier (and cheaper) to try and make headphones with an integrated button that can connect to the application installed on the connected smartphone.
The support to Amazon Alexa is not the only point in favor, but also a decidedly low consumption allowing to have a greater autonomy of reproduction. Qualcomm Smart Headset could not miss Qualcomm cVc noise cancellation technology (with dual microphone), with OEMs that can also add active noise cancellation via Qualcomm ANC.
Going into detail, the SoC of the development platform is a Qualcomm QCC5124 BGA90 with support for Bluetooth 5.0 + LE connectivity, DSP Kalimba and various technologies developed by the US company such as TrueWireless Stereo (also Plus), aptX Classic and HD and Broadcast Audio Technology.
