Voice recognition specialist Sensory will show its embedded speech and sound-recognition software at electronica 2026 in Munich. The demonstration will be on the stand of electronic components distributor Astute Group.
Sensory’s software runs on the device itself. It lets products recognise wake phrases, spoken commands and specific sounds. For people wearing earbuds or smart glasses, that means a function can be triggered by voice rather than by finding a button or reaching for a phone. In household appliances, local command recognition can allow hands-free operation.
Separately, Sensory offers sound identification, which can help wearables recognise relevant alarms and alerts.
The software handles the interaction in stages. First, a wake-word engine listens for the phrase that activates the interface. Command recognition then lets the product act on what the user asks. More complex voice assistants may still hand later stages to connected cloud services, even when activation happens on the device.
Sensory’s Smart Wake Word product adds adjustable detection thresholds. It also lets the trigger phrase appear more flexibly within a spoken request. According to the company, this gives engineers more control over how users address a product and how it tells an intended command apart from background conversation.
For engineers building voice into a product, the key questions are practical. Which phrases will users actually say? What background noise will the device face? How much memory and power can be set aside for recognition?
Sensory is one of several manufacturers in Astute’s technology presentation at electronica. The show runs at Messe München from 10 to 13 November, and Astute is in Hall C5, Stand 421.
