Huawei Incorporates LifeVibes VoiceExperience from NXP Software into New Global LTE Phones

EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands, June 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Huawei, a world leader in ICT solutions and NXP Software, the global leader in mobile speech and sensing software, have agreed to deploy LifeVibes VoiceExperience into Huawei LTE phones.

The Huawei new LTE phones including G660, G730 and G620 will be the first global Huawei LTE devices using LifeVibes VoiceExperience on the Qualcomm Hexagon platform. The phones are launching in China with China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, and in Europe with Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile.

"We really appreciate NXP Software quality and timely local support to our teams as well as how they help us to continuously bring more innovative and valuable use cases to our latest devices. LifeVibes VoiceExperience software is the state of the art voice solution and will allow us to offer our customers the best experience possible with novel ways to interact with Huawei devices," said Dr. Fang-Ching Lee, Audio & Acoustic Global Leader for Huawei.

"The operator-compliant performance benefits of our solutions are complemented by the professional and responsive support we provide to Huawei," said Nicolas Sauvage, Marketing & Sales Director, OEM Business Line, NXP Software. "In this case, our local support team in Beijing worked closely with Huawei on the integration and tuning, as well as working out smart ways to deliver new innovations very quickly. We have now set up a measurement lab in our Beijing office to even better support Huawei, and extended our support team in Shanghai to be able to improve to the same quality of responsive support for the Huawei Shanghai teams. We are proud to contribute to Huawei's success and look forward to contributing more and more in the coming months."

LifeVibes VoiceExperience delivers increased audio quality and clarity, offering natural voice calling that enhances consumers' experience. Excellent noise suppression and echo cancellation is based on advanced voice modelling techniques, allowing unwanted signals to be removed selectively. Echo and noise is thus removed without affecting natural speech quality, ensuring intelligibility in noisy environments, including when using speaker mode. VoiceExperience is a platform-independent, full-software solution offering fast time-to-market and measurably superior quality, backed by worldwide support.

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global ICT solutions provider. Through our dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established end-to-end capabilities and strengths across the carrier networks, enterprise, consumer, and cloud computing fields. We are committed to creating maximum value for telecom carriers, enterprises and consumers by providing competitive ICT solutions and services. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 140 countries, serving more than one third of the world's population.

About NXP Software

NXP Software is the leading global independent software vendor (ISV) for mobile smart devices. Its LifeVibes™ software solutions bring differentiation to consumers by providing the best acoustic quality to device makers for use across their platforms.

Through expertise, consumer insights and partnerships across the eco-system, NXP Software creates innovative use cases that make calling more personal and makes consumers aware of their context to support their day to day decisions. LifeVibes speech and sensing software makes smart devices more human, more you.  NXP Software B.V. is a separate legal entity of NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI)

SOURCE NXP Software