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Audio Product Education Institute Promotes New Supply Chain Webinar with Hansong and Tristar
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Audio Product Education Institute Promotes New Supply Chain Webinar with Hansong and Tristar

The Audio Product Education Institute (APEI), the Audio Engineering Society (AES) initiative promoting methodologies, practices and technologies involved in developing and bringing audio products to market, will host its fourth online event addressing Supply Chain & Sourcing. The webinar, Wednesday, January 6 (12:00pm ET), will welcome industry experts from two major audio industry suppliers – Hansong Technology and Tristar Electronics.
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Jazz Club Sound Inside a Volvo with Bowers & Wilkins Speakers and Dirac Processing
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Jazz Club Sound Inside a Volvo with Bowers & Wilkins Speakers and Dirac Processing

Dirac, Harman and Volvo have revealed the results of a unique collaboration effort to recreate the sound experience of Sweden's famed Nefertiti Jazz Club, inside Volvo’s 2021 60 and 90 series of vehicles. The Dirac-enabled Bowers & Wilkins car audio system adds "Jazz Club" mode, to transport drivers and passengers to a unique immersive experience, by recreating the acoustics of the Gothenburg club within the car cabin.
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Sennheiser and Continental Car Audio Project Selected as CES Innovation Awards 2021 Honoree
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Sennheiser and Continental Car Audio Project Selected as CES Innovation Awards 2021 Honoree

Expanding on its successful car audio partnership announcement at CES 2020, Sennheiser and Continental’s speakerless immersive audio system for vehicles was selected as a CES Innovation Awards 2021 Honoree. The new audio system explores new ways to enhance in-car entertainment experiences by integrating Sennheiser’s patented AMBEO 3D audio technology with Continental’s speakerless Ac2ated Sound system.
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Event and Installation Technology Industry Wants To Return to In-Person Trade Events
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Event and Installation Technology Industry Wants To Return to In-Person Trade Events

In October 2020, Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), AVIXA, and CEDIA commissioned a study targeting AV professionals to evaluate the industry's appetite for conferences and events following COVID-19. The research, completed before news of a COVID-19 vaccine, was carried out to gauge interest in face-to-face, digital and hybrid event formats. The results show that 98% of the audience missed attending in-person AV industry events.
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Retune DSP VoiceSpot Wake Word Engine Now Available for CEVA Audio/Voice DSPs
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Retune DSP VoiceSpot Wake Word Engine Now Available for CEVA Audio/Voice DSPs

CEVA and Retune DSP, a leading provider of Digital Signal Processing Solutions for Voice Control and Communication announced that the Retune VoiceSpot Wake Word Engine is now optimized and available for CEVA’s audio/voice DSPs, including the CEVA-BX, CEVA-X, and CEVA-TeakLite families. CEVA and Retune DSP are already engaged with a lead customer, deploying this collaborative solution in an upcoming smart home device.
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Meridian Launches New Premium Audio Integration Through Works With Sonos Program
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Meridian Launches New Premium Audio Integration Through Works With Sonos Program

Meridian Audio is now certified by the Works with Sonos program, offering a new integration for its premium audio equipment to seamlessly connect with the Sonos sound system. This new integration makes it even easier for Sonos users to enjoy Meridian’s high-performance audio using the familiar Sonos interface, while streaming from more than 100 music services available and enjoying the ability for Meridian speakers to instantly wake and change inputs by simply pressing play in the Sonos app.
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DSP Concepts and Bose Collaborate on Advanced Sound Management Technologies for Automotive Brands
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DSP Concepts and Bose Collaborate on Advanced Sound Management Technologies for Automotive Brands

DSP Concepts announced a collaboration with the Automotive Systems Division of Bose Corporation to bring the company’s Active Sound Management (ASM) solutions into Audio Weaver. Engineers from DSP Concepts and Bose have completed work demonstrating the effectiveness of one of those ASM solutions – Bose QuietComfort Road Noise Control (RNC) – within the Audio Weaver environment, adding to the platform’s library of nearly 500 market-proven modules available to developers through a drag-and-drop graphical interface.
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Augmented Hearing Technology from ams Enables Nuheara’s Latest IQbuds2 MAX Smart Hearing Earbuds
by Joao Martins

Augmented Hearing Technology from ams Enables Nuheara’s Latest IQbuds2 MAX Smart Hearing Earbuds

An apparently conventional true wireless stereo design, which survived multiple iterations with similarly looking designs, Australian startup Nuheara finally achieved its goal of standing out in a crowded consumer space, with the ability to enhance the user’s hearing ability. A bridge towards truly smart hearables, the Nuheara IQbuds2 MAX product enjoys critical acclaim thanks to a combination of great sound quality, advanced ANC and personalized hearing enhancement, powered by Austrian company ams.
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Qualcomm Announces QCC305x SoC Series for True Wireless Earbud Designs with Bluetooth LE Audio Support
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Qualcomm Announces QCC305x SoC Series for True Wireless Earbud Designs with Bluetooth LE Audio Support

Qualcomm Technologies International, unveiled the Qualcomm QCC305x SoCs, designed specifically to help brands differentiate across a range of tiers in the very fast-moving truly wireless earbud category. The new SoCs are designed to meet demand for advanced wireless audio use cases, and enable end-to-end support for the new Bluetooth LE Audio standard. The QCC305x series also adds support for ultra-low-power digital ANC technology, Qualcomm Adaptive ANC, Qualcomm TrueWireless Mirroring, and wake word activated voice assistants.
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7 Sensing Software Joins Qualcomm Extension Program with Hearing Augmentation and Voice Processing Solutions
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7 Sensing Software Joins Qualcomm Extension Program with Hearing Augmentation and Voice Processing Solutions

7 Sensing Software, an embedded software development company active in audio processing and machine learning targeting wearable and hearable applications, announced that it joined the Qualcomm Extension Program. With this confirmation, 7 Sensing Software is now able to offer its Hearing Augmentation and Pure Voice solutions for wireless earbuds and headsets running on the ultra low power, premium-tier Qualcomm QCC5100 Bluetooth SoC family.
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