Applied Brain Research

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.

Niagara ASR generates first text output in as little as 115 milliseconds

The Niagara automatic speech recognition models produce initial text from audio input in 115 milliseconds, measured on embedded application-class CPUs. The Nith text-to-speech models generate first audio output from initial text in 147 milliseconds, with all models operating faster than real time across every supported platform.