audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available

audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available
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Advertise in the Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2024!

Advertise in the Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2024!
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Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024

Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024
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The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities

The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities
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Dirac Introduces Dirac Live for Studio Software and DAW Plug-In
by audioXpress Staff

Dirac Introduces Dirac Live for Studio Software and DAW Plug-In

Swedish sound processing pioneer Dirac decided to expand the application of its pioneering room correction solution – Dirac Live – to include studio environments that have been long plagued by acoustical challenges. Dirac Live for Studio features patented impulse response and frequency response correction to help tackle time domain and frequency domain issues – thereby improving the accuracy of sound reproduction in studio environments.
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Delightfully Disruptive Huawei Sound X Wireless Speaker Co-Designed with Devialet
by Joao Martins

Delightfully Disruptive Huawei Sound X Wireless Speaker Co-Designed with Devialet

With China resuming production capabilities and companies back to work, the barrage of products that had been scheduled to be unveiled or launched at MWC Barcelona 2020 are now being announced. Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei unveiled its latest smartphone together with a new wireless speaker, co-designed with French audio company Devialet. Announced to the world during an "online product release event," the all-new Huawei-Devialet joint wireless speaker stands-out for the electro-acoustic design and the patently intent to copy the Apple HomePod.
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Celestion Announces the Availability of the Ruby Guitar Speaker Impulse Responses in Two Notes Format
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Celestion Announces the Availability of the Ruby Guitar Speaker Impulse Responses in Two Notes Format

Celestion continues its Impulse Responses initiatives with, this time announcing availability of the Celestion Ruby Two Notes Guitar Speaker Impulse Responses, for use with the critically acclaimed Torpedo (Studio, Live, C.A.B) hardware, the speaker and miking simulation engine; and Wall of Sound software environment (a DAW plug-in version of Torpedo). Two Notes Audio Engineering (https://www.two-notes.com) is a French manufacturer of guitar/bass speaker, cabinet simulation products.
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    Qualcomm Offers New Ultra-Low Power Bluetooth Audio SoCs for Truly Wireless ANC Development
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    Qualcomm Offers New Ultra-Low Power Bluetooth Audio SoCs for Truly Wireless ANC Development

    With its previous generation of QCC SoCs for Bluetooth true wireless earbuds development, Qualcomm enabled virtually every single mobile and CE brand to finally create products able to compete with Apple's massively successful AirPods, still the market leader by a wide margin. Then Apple introduced its AirPods Pro with ANC and its market share expanded even more. Now Qualcomm launched a new generation of SoCs combining hybrid ANC and other technologies to enable brands to design new competitive TWS products.
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    Hooke Audio Releases Wireless Binaural Audio Recording Hooke App Version 2
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    Hooke Audio Releases Wireless Binaural Audio Recording Hooke App Version 2

    Hooke Audio announced the release of Hooke App Version 2, a major software update now available as a free download for all Hooke Verse iOS and Android users. The Hooke 3D audio and video capture app offers new flexibility and enhanced features for optimal video and binaural audio recording, like support for 720, 1080 and 4K videos, new 24fps frame rate, and other features available on newer smartphones, plus enhanced wireless Bluetooth performance. The Hooke Version 2.0 App is available as a free download for all new and registered users from the App Store and Google Play.
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    Tascam Model 12 Integrated Production Mixer and Recording Interface Now with Carry-On Bag
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    Tascam Model 12 Integrated Production Mixer and Recording Interface Now with Carry-On Bag

    Announced at NAMM 2020 in January and now with the initial shipment already sold out, Tascam reported that its second wave of Model 12 mixers are on the way and will be available via authorized in-store and authorized online retailers soon. Just in time for the compact Model 12 availability, Tascam has introduced a dedicated carry bag for the unit, the CS-Model 12, allowing users to leverage the mixer features in live sound and podcast applications, recording in the field, and basically carry their project studio everywhere they go.
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    Growth in News/Talk Format’s Share of Streaming Amid COVID-19 Disruption
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    Growth in News/Talk Format’s Share of Streaming Amid COVID-19 Disruption

    Triton Digital, the digital audio technology and advertising company which continuously monitors user behavior and media consumption in the U.S., released new data around both AM/FM streams and station formats during the COVID-19 disruption, from March 6th through March 19th. Triton and Edison Research also recently published The Infinite Dial 2020 report identifying interesting trends in the use of smart speakers, voice assistants, streaming services and podcasts.
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    Samsung Introduces Industry’s First All-in-One Power ICs Optimized for Wireless Earbuds
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    Samsung Introduces Industry’s First All-in-One Power ICs Optimized for Wireless Earbuds

    Showing its importance to the CE industry as one of the world's largest advanced semiconductor manufacturers, Samsung Electronics announced the first all-in-one power management integrated circuits (PMIC), MUA01 and MUB01, optimized for True Wireless Stereo (TWS) devices. The new Samsung PMICs integrate multiple discrete components in one chip to make room for longer battery life and more efficient designs in today’s true wireless earbuds and other very low power designs.
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    CEVA Announces DSP and Voice Neural Networks Integration for Power-Efficient Edge Processors
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    CEVA Announces DSP and Voice Neural Networks Integration for Power-Efficient Edge Processors

    CEVA announced that its CEVA-BX DSP cores and WhisPro speech recognition software now also support TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers, a production ready, cross-platform framework for deploying tiny machine learning on power-efficient processors in edge devices. WhisPro is CEVA's speech recognition software for voice wake words and custom command models. TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers is a solution from Google for implementing machine learning at the edge, already optimized and available for CEVA-BX DSP cores.
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    AIMS Welcomes Silex Insight as Newest ProAV Alliance Member
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    AIMS Welcomes Silex Insight as Newest ProAV Alliance Member

    As the effort towards the introduction of the Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) set of open standards and specifications continues, new companies are joining. The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced that Silex Insight, an independent supplier of video IP codec and custom OEM solutions for AV, has become an AIMS member - just as AIMS' Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) set of open standards and specifications gains traction in the AV industry.
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