Engineering sciences - Electroengineering

The Technische Universität Ilmenau, together with research partners, has developed a microphone inspired by biology that picks up sound similar to the human ear. The microphone could help improve speech recognition for controlling a variety of digital applications. In the future, the new process could even make overall acoustic systems consisting of a microphone and speech recognition more efficient, so that they consume less energy. The results of the research conducted by the Group of Microand Nanoelectronic Systems at TU Ilmenau and its research partners have just been published in the renowned international journal Nature Electronics.