While the popularity of voice-first interfaces has spawned massive diversity in device type, as long as these devices have one thing in common: They are battery-powered, and that could be a problem for consumers who are tired of frequently recharging batteries.

Steve Taranovich explains how a better understanding of our brain's efficiency in processing and analyzing sounds is leading to a more efficient always on sensing architecture for battery-operated devices.

Aspinity announces its Reconfigurable Analog Modular Processor (RAMP) platform, an ultra-low power, analog processing platform that overcomes the power and data handling challenges in battery-operated, always-on sensing devices.