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Dirac Announces Automotive Digital Audio Solution for Entry Model Vehicles
by audioXpress Staff

Dirac Announces Automotive Digital Audio Solution for Entry Model Vehicles

After securing a position in the high-end automotive market, Swedish audio processing pioneer Dirac now announced the introduction of a new digital audio solution designed specifically for entry-level audio systems. The new automotive audio solution is built upon the company’s 15-year legacy working in the high-end space, while also featuring innovations that address the specific needs of sound systems that address the specific requirements of entry-level vehicles.
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WiSA Expands Interoperability With New Hisense WiSA Ready Certified TVs
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WiSA Expands Interoperability With New Hisense WiSA Ready Certified TVs

The Wireless Speaker and Audio Association (WiSA) announced a global collaboration with rapidly growing TV brand Hisense in which the brand’s premier 2021 TV models have been certified WiSA Ready. This allows for a quick and simple connection to all WiSA USB transmitters and WiSA Certified Speakers to create immersive audio home cinema systems. Hisense joins other WiSA member TV brands, including LG, Skyworth, Bang & Olufsen, and more who are implementing integrated wireless technology into meaningful product lines and launches.
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Soundbars Star in 2020 With Another Strong Year for Home Audio
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Soundbars Star in 2020 With Another Strong Year for Home Audio

In 2020, the value of the Home Audio market was the highest it has ever been, rising 4% to $19.8 billion. This was partly driven by the pandemic, which in forcing people inside has supercharged interest in music and media consumption. In a new report from Futuresource Consulting by analyst Patrick Montgomery, the market research firm calls attention to Soundbars, which continues to be a strong growth audio product segment, increasingly expanding the wireless audio ecosystem.
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Rohde & Schwarz Joins the FiRa Consortium to Show Its Commitment to the Growing Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Ecosystem
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Rohde & Schwarz Joins the FiRa Consortium to Show Its Commitment to the Growing Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Ecosystem

Rohde & Schwarz joined the FiRa Consortium as an associate member. FiRa, short for "fine ranging," is an organization dedicated to growing the UWB ecosystem by ensuring interoperability between multiple devices through compliance and certification programs. By joining the FiRa Consortium, Rohde & Schwarz contributes to the organization’s efforts to establish a certification program for UWB devices. Rohde & Schwarz brings along a broad expertise in mobile device testing and certification
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Libre Wireless Forms Strategic Alliance with Knowles Corporation on MAVID Voice AI Platform
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Libre Wireless Forms Strategic Alliance with Knowles Corporation on MAVID Voice AI Platform

Leading embedded wireless voice/AI solutions provider Libre Wireless Technologies announced a strategic alliance with Knowles Corporation to jointly promote and market new solutions based on the MAVID (Multiprotocol-Audio-Voice-IoT-Devices) platform. These miniature-sized and low power mic-to-cloud edge voice/AI computing solutions now feature Knowles' micro-acoustic microphones and speaker technology, optimized for smart product development.
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High End Show 2021 in Munich Is Now Fully Booked!
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High End Show 2021 in Munich Is Now Fully Booked!

The organizer of the High End Show, the High End Society Service Gmbh, announced that the 2021 edition of the Munich show is now fully booked, even before the registration deadline at the end of March 2021! Scheduled to take place September 9-12, 2021, in combination with the newly announced International Parts+Supply (IPS) expansion, this seems to be now the very first International audio show to take place in 2021, even if global travel is expected to still be conditioned.
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Nanusens Moves Headquarters and Receives Funding for Expansion
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Nanusens Moves Headquarters and Receives Funding for Expansion

Nanusens, the innovative research venture working on nano-sensors built inside CMOS devices, recently received significant funding that will enable it to expand its operations and hire new staff. Nanusens is also a finalist for the Design Team of the Year in the prestigious Elektra Awards 2020. The company, headquartered in the United Kingdom, with R&D centers in Barcelona, Spain and Shenzen, China, has designed a novel way to enable the higher frequency bands needed by 5G mobile phones, something that presents a challenge with current technology.
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DSP Group Opens Audio Signal Processing and AI Innovation Lab in Germany
by Joao Martins

DSP Group Opens Audio Signal Processing and AI Innovation Lab in Germany

DSP Group announced the opening of an audio innovation lab in Straubing, Germany, focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in audio signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI) for acoustic engineering. The lab is already staffed with experts, each with 20+ years of experience in the areas of voice and audio processing algorithm development and deployment, speaker non-linear processing, AI-based audio processing, active noise cancellation (ANC), and rapid prototyping and tuning.
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Can Audio Quality Criteria Be Classified by Machines Using Artificial Intelligence?
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Can Audio Quality Criteria Be Classified by Machines Using Artificial Intelligence?

The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) are promoting a webcast on March 24 to discuss the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to address audio quality classification. The topic will be addressed by Musician Tyler Morris, Tufts Graduate School of Electrical Engineering, Undergraduate WPI Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dr. Karen Panetta, Dean of Graduate Education for the School of Engineering, authors of a paper on the subject.
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AES Audio Product Education Institute Invites Design Houses to Discuss How to Quickly Bring Audio Products to Market
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AES Audio Product Education Institute Invites Design Houses to Discuss How to Quickly Bring Audio Products to Market

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI), will host its sixth online event addressing Supply Chain & Sourcing on Wednesday, March 17 (12:00pm EDT). The online session will feature top executives from Cardinal Peak and One Point Zero discussing the role and contributions of design houses as a critical support option in bringing new products to market.
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