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Vesper Completes $16M Financing to Accelerate Growth
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Vesper Completes $16M Financing to Accelerate Growth

Vesper, the pioneer in piezoelectric MEMS microphones and sensors that is now empowering edge-AI applications in consumer devices, closed a $18M financing round led by Accomplice. Vesper also received investments from Applied Materials Ventures, Sands Capital, Bose, Amazon Alexa Fund, Gopher Asset Management, ITIC, World Peace Group, Unitrontech, and MegaChips. The round brings Vesper's total funding to date to $73M.
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Audeze Expands R&D and Global Distribution Network With New Taiwan Subsidiary
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Audeze Expands R&D and Global Distribution Network With New Taiwan Subsidiary

Audeze announced the opening of their new Taiwan subsidiary, Audeze Taiwan. Located in the heart of Taiwan, Taipei city, the new office will focus as an R&D center for technical innovations, while increasing product distribution efficiency and customer experience for Audeze’s Taiwan-based users and dealers. Additionally, Audeze Taiwan will also serve as a hub for Audeze’s distribution of other premium audio manufacturers, including Burson Audio and Periodic Audio.
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Tektronix Global Engineer Survey 2021 Results Announced
by Cristina Costa

Tektronix Global Engineer Survey 2021 Results Announced

Engineers want a long lifetime from their test and measurement instruments, according to a global survey of nearly 1,300 professionals, conducted by Tektronix between April and May 2021. The survey also finds engineers want to be able to cope with rapid advancements in technology, and want more technical support from test and measurement vendors.
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T2 Software Qualifies First Bluetooth LE Audio Host Stack
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T2 Software Qualifies First Bluetooth LE Audio Host Stack

T2 Software announced the Bluetooth SIG qualification and listing of their Bluetooth LE Audio Host Stack. With OEM's and semiconductor companies all busy building LE Audio solutions, T2 Software was the first company to fully qualify all of the adopted profiles and services supporting Bluetooth LE Audio. The team has been working closely with the Bluetooth SIG over a period of three years.
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APEI Discusses Mitigation Strategies for Component Shortages and Supply Disruptions
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APEI Discusses Mitigation Strategies for Component Shortages and Supply Disruptions

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI) presents a new webinar in its Supply Chain & Sourcing education pillar, addressing current component shortages, logistics challenges and manufacturing and supply disruptions. David Lindberg (DB Enterprises) and Mike Klasco (Menlo Scientific) invited senior executives from Seltech International and Emporium Partners - two companies with extensive experience in supply chain services - to outline this dynamic global environment, and define mitigation strategies for the audio industry.
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Knowles Launches Raspberry Pi Development Kit to Enable Voice Integration for New Applications and Industries
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Knowles Launches Raspberry Pi Development Kit to Enable Voice Integration for New Applications and Industries

Knowles announced the availability of the Knowles AISonic IA8201 Raspberry Pi Development Kit to bring voice, audio edge processing, and machine learning (ML) listening capabilities to devices and systems in a range of new industries. The new development kit bundles all of the hardware, add-on open software and algorithms required to test, prototype, and debug voice and audio functionality and integration in new applications for smart home, consumer technology, industrial, and beyond.
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ReadSpeaker Powers Custom Voices for Spotify Car Thing Smart Player
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ReadSpeaker Powers Custom Voices for Spotify Car Thing Smart Player

ReadSpeaker, a voice technology company from Sweden, announced that Spotify uses its neural text-to-speech (TTS) technology to deliver custom voices for Spotify’s newest exploration in the US - a limited release of Car Thing, a smart player for the car. ReadSpeaker’s technology currently powers the custom voice available in Car Thing, the bold, first hardware adventure from the Swedish streaming company.
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Musicube Introduces Next-Generation Music Discovery AI Technology
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Musicube Introduces Next-Generation Music Discovery AI Technology

Musicube is a software company from Hamburg, Germany, working on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions intended to solve a serious problem in the music industry. Its music discovery technology generates more than 500 metadata tags (moods, instruments, and more) for more than 47 million songs using its audio analysis AI, and is intended to solve the closed "preferences" playlist loop that most users experience from existing streaming services.
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STMicroelectronics Accelerates Wireless Product Development with STM32 Microcontroller Ecosystem
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STMicroelectronics Accelerates Wireless Product Development with STM32 Microcontroller Ecosystem

STMicroelectronics is easing the design of competitively priced and power-efficient wireless equipment for smart applications in buildings and infrastructure by introducing new development tools and software for STM32WB wireless microcontrollers (MCUs). The company announced that his STM32Cube ecosystem was extended to support STM32WB wireless MCUs, with new STM32CubeWB firmware, upgrades to programmer and RF test tool, and an enhanced wireless power estimator for calculating battery runtime.
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Hottinger Bruel & Kjaer Electroacoustics Virtual Conference Takes Place September 28 - 29
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Hottinger Bruel & Kjaer Electroacoustics Virtual Conference Takes Place September 28 - 29

Registration is now open for the upcoming Electroacoustic Virtual Conference, an event promoted by Hottinger Bruel & Kjaer (HBK), which this year will be fully online and offers an exciting two-day program. The Electroacoustic Conference will offer presentations from experts in all areas related with sound, noise, acoustics and vibration, with more than 21 presentations already scheduled. Sessions include presentations from companies such as Head-Fi, XMEMS Micro Speakers, Comsol, Embody VR, Vibrations Inc., Harman International and more.
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