A year ago, we responded to the lockdown and stay-at-home restrictions by allowing free digital access to all our print subscribers for the rest of the year, and we opened up the May, June, and July 2020 issues of the two subscription-based KCK Media titles - Circuit Cellar and audioXpress - to everyone for free. I still remember receiving multiple messages from appreciative readers also asking for access to Voice Coil, to which we gladly reminded them that the title was already free - all they had to do was register to receive it such a highly targeted and unique title (yes, you need to tell us that you are a working professional in the loudspeaker industry, or you are really, really, really committed to read about loudspeaker technology and you are extremely comfortable with Thiele-Small parameters, phase calculations and voltage curves).
Focused on a much wider range of topics than loudspeakers, audioXpress offers the same cutting-edge, highly technical level for everything audio, but delivering 68 full pages (or more) plus cover, all in full color, every month, online or print. Yes, for those who like to read on actual paper, audioXpress is still printed and delivered to your door every month. And this is obviously available at a price that is as affordable as possible, for full access, the whole year.
Not to brag too much (well, just a bit!) but one year later, the April 2021 edition of audioXpress offers an essential perspective into an extremely important transition that is currently pushing the entire audio industry forward. In two complementary Market Update articles, we’ve tried to cover the technology and development platforms for true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds and hearables, as well as exploring examples in voice recognition and transcription (voice-to-text) and voice communication. As I signal in that edition's editorial, there are multiple product and market segments for these emerging technologies and that is why we needed to have two Market Update features, even if the underlying technologies are converging.
This new edition of audioXpress is also enriched with two exceptional contributed articles from two relatively new technology companies in the voice and DSP space, addressing these same emerging technologies and diversity of applications.
First Jean-Marc Luneau, an audio DSP engineer and co-founder of 7 Sensing Software, discusses expanding voice communications and the frontiers of augmented audio in TWS earbuds. And Vikrant Singh Tomar, the founder and CTO of Fluent.ai, explains how his company is taking voice recognition even further by focusing on user recognition, personalized responses, and even addressing multilingual challenges. Both articles perfectly illustrate the exciting perspectives for their respective fields of research.
Every month, audioXpress strives to offer not only a summary of all the latest market intelligence and an overview of different technologies and applications segments, but we also pinpoint key market trends. In the topics addressed this month, audioXpress has been right at the cutting edge of industry trends. In just two years, extraordinary developments in the field of voice capture and recognition have completely changed the technology landscape. audioXpress has been covering that groundbreaking research in specific disciplines, from microphones and smart speakers to voice interfaces and audio communications. And audioXpress was the first industry publication to clearly signal how the evolution in the field of voice capture for voice recognition products could completely change communications (and specifically Unified Communications & Collaboration), a market segment that was abruptly thrown into disarray at the start of the pandemic.
Likewise, audioXpress was the first industry publication to pinpoint how intense research and technology convergence in the consumer space related to microphone technology, microphone arrays, beamforming techniques, and advanced audio signal processing algorithms, including advanced noise cancellation and filtering, could lead to new horizons in audio enhancement, directly at the most personal listening level. In multiple Market Updates, audioXpress has been pinpointing key advancements in audio augmentation and real-time acoustic compensation, to name just a few fields that are now changing what is possible in high-quality audio reproduction in speakers or directly to the ear, though true wireless stereo earbuds.
All that work and invaluable information is always available to our readers, who subscribe to the publication in print or digital, with easily searchable topics and keywords. Content that is highlighted for each edition in our descriptive summaries.
And because we want to make sure that all the readers of The Audio Voice newsletter have a chance to appreciate the full experience of audioXpress, we have decided to offer a one-time opportunity to sample this April 2021 edition for free and offer a discount for a one-year digital subscription.
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