WATERLOO – November 02, 2026 -- Applied Brain Research (ABR) has made its speech AI software development kit generally available on Zephyr RTOS for Alif Semiconductor's Ensemble family of edge AI processors. On the Ensemble E8, its Niagara ASR engine delivers 133 ms average latency from first audio to first token while drawing 15 mW of active power above baseline.

Waterloo, ON – September 21, 2026 -- Applied Brain Research (ABR) has released the ABR SDK, a production toolkit combining its Niagara streaming speech recognition and Nith streaming speech synthesis models into a single API that runs entirely on edge processor hardware, eliminating network dependency for voice interfaces.