How Devices Learn to Truly Listen: Insights from Unite.AI Interview

Dani Cherkassky, CEO and Co-founder of Kardome, recently shared his vision for the future of voice AI in an in-depth interview with Unite.AI, specifically addressing the challenges faced by manufacturers integrating voice into their products.

The Core Problem: Why Voice AI Fails in Your Products

In a quiet lab, modern speech recognition is near-perfect, but for end-users, performance collapses in the real world (noisy cars, busy homes, factory floors). The technology forces people to use rigid "voice etiquette" instead of natural conversation.

Kardome's Solution: The Sensory and Cognitive Stack

Kardome closes this gap by combining two core technologies, designed to make devices truly listen and understand in complex environments:

• Spatial Hearing AI: Isolates and tracks individual speakers and sounds in a messy acoustic scene to deliver clean audio for processing.
• Cognition AI: Provides true conversational understanding by determining:
  • Who is speaking.
  • What they mean in conversational context.
  • How to maintain dialogue flow across turns and interruptions.

Edge-First Voice AI: The Integration Advantage

For manufacturers, Kardome champions an Edge-First Voice AI approach, moving intelligence to the device itself. This is critical for:

• Privacy & Reliability: Keeps sensitive voice data from ever leaving the device, eliminating the trade-off between always-listening performance and user privacy concerns.
• Instant Interaction: Ensures low-latency, instant response without cloud dependence, vital for safety-critical applications like automotive.

What This Unlocks for Your Products

The stack enables robust, natural voice interaction across key manufacturing segments:

• Automotive: Truly hands-free control at highway speeds, even with music and passengers talking, and clear focus on seat-level target speech up to six voice zones.
• Smart Homes & Consumer Electronics: Devices that distinguish speakers in a room and respond to the right person, gracefully handling multiple simultaneous requests.
• Robotics: Natural, multi-speaker interaction in homes, offices, and industrial settings, providing the only interface that truly scales as robots become ubiquitous.

Kardome’s Goal: To be the operating layer for voice UI—making it possible to operate any device by voice, in any space, with human-level listening and understanding.

Explore the Full Conversation

This recap only scratches the surface of the Unite.AI discussion. To dive deeper into:

• How Spatial Hearing AI works under the hood
• Why edge‑native voice is critical for privacy and performance
• What it will take to reach true voice‑first computing

You can read the full Unite.AI interview with Dani Cherkassky.
But the best way to understand Kardome is to see and hear it in person.

See Human-like Voice AI in Action at CES
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We’ll be demonstrating how Spatial Hearing AI and Cognition AI let devices and robots:

• Focus on the right speaker in noisy environments
• Handle overlapping speech without breaking
• Enable natural, frustration‑free interaction in real‑world conditions

Book a 20‑minute CES session with our team to experience Kardome live and talk through your 2026 roadmap for voice in devices and robotics.