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Xiaomi Teams Up with Dirac Research on its Xiaomi Mi AI Smart Speaker
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Xiaomi Teams Up with Dirac Research on its Xiaomi Mi AI Smart Speaker

Marking Dirac’s debut in the smart speaker market segment, the Swedish company has teamed up with Chinese consumer electronics giant Xiaomi to provide the Mi AI smart speaker with an improved listening experience – complete with louder audio, a wider soundstage, clearer and improved vocal separation, and richer acoustical details. This upgrade - which Xiaomi describes as “extraordinary” - has been delivered through a software update made available worldwide on January 26th, 2018.
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The GSMA Mobile World Congress 2018 Returns to Discuss the Future of Personal Technologies and Wearables
by Joao Martins

The GSMA Mobile World Congress 2018 Returns to Discuss the Future of Personal Technologies and Wearables

The Mobile World Congress returns in 2018, held 26 February – 1 March at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain. The event brings more than 100,000 attendees from over 200 countries and 2,300 exhibitors together in one place, creating a dynamic environment of collaboration, innovation and education that will advance the mobile industry. Front and center in this year's edition will be once again the future of personal mobile technologies, wearables, and many innovations that will affect the audio industry.
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QSC Celebrates 50 Years and Major Product Milestones at NAMM 2018
by Joao Martins

QSC Celebrates 50 Years and Major Product Milestones at NAMM 2018

From its humble beginnings as the maker of garage-made guitar amplifiers to today’s leading brand of professional AV for live sound, cinema and corporate installations worldwide, QSC has good reasons to celebrate reaching its 50th anniversary. During NAMM 2018 the QSC founders were honored with a NAMM Milestone Award for 50 Years of Service in the music products industry. The company also celebrated the achievement of one million K Series loudspeakers sold, and introduced new products.
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Pascal Moves Into Expanded Headquarters with State-of-the-art EMC Test Laboratory
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Pascal Moves Into Expanded Headquarters with State-of-the-art EMC Test Laboratory

Following a year of continuing accelerated growth, Danish pro audio amplifier electronics manufacturer Pascal A/S kicked off 2018 with a transition to newly expanded headquarters and facilities, featuring a state-of-the-art EMC test laboratory. Completion of the 55 percent expansion of its HQ, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, was the closing high note of 2017, a year in which the company, once again, eclipsed its growth targets.
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XMOS Showcases Advanced True Stereo Voice Interface Solutions
by Joao Martins

XMOS Showcases Advanced True Stereo Voice Interface Solutions

XMOS will be showcasing their portfolio of far-field voice capture solutions for voice-enabled stereo smart TVs, soundbars, set-top boxes, and digital media adapter markets at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2018, Barcelona, 26th February to 1st March. XMOS will be demonstrating commercial solutions in development, and proof of concepts that capture voice commands accurately from across the room even when the audio appliances are playing content at high volume in complex noisy acoustic environments.
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Valens Adds New HDBaseT Chipsets to the Colligo Family for Plug-and-Play Product Design
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Valens Adds New HDBaseT Chipsets to the Colligo Family for Plug-and-Play Product Design

Valens, the developer of HDBaseT and founder of the HDBaseT Alliance, announced the availability of the VS200 and VS210 chipsets, for simpler HDBaseT installations where not all 5Play features are necessary. The addition of the VS200 and VS210 to the Valens Colligo family allows HDBaseT equipment vendors to design and manufacture a range of products, from high-end to low-end, using a common hardware platform.
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Your Audio Systems Launches Software Development Solution for AES67 and AES70 Embedded Devices at ISE 2018
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Your Audio Systems Launches Software Development Solution for AES67 and AES70 Embedded Devices at ISE 2018

In preparation for its Integrated Systems Europe debut, Swiss-based Your Audio Systems announces the first major demonstration of Orchestra, an embedded Linux software solution for AES67/AES70 professional embedded devices, now available for OEM implementations. The company will exhibit Orchestra in the OCA Alliance stand (7-R240) in the Amsterdam RAI, Amsterdam, from February 6-9.
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Aurender Music Servers First to Support RAVENNA Networking
by Joao Martins

Aurender Music Servers First to Support RAVENNA Networking

Merging Technologies announced that it will be showing an Aurender X100 Music Server directly connected to a RAVENNA AoIP network and using a MERGING+NADAC as the DAC. This significant move sees Aurender be the first manufacturer to take advantage of the benefits that a RAVENNA network can bring to home applications, as part of a multi-room or multi-zone system without any of the traditional cable length limitations of USB connectivity.
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Musikmesse and Prolight+Sound 2018 To Reinforce Professional Focus
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Musikmesse and Prolight+Sound 2018 To Reinforce Professional Focus

Musikmesse (11 to 14 April 2018) and Prolight+Sound (10 to 13 April 2018) will once again bring together companies with retailers, professionals from the musical-instrument, event and media-technologies sectors, as well as musicians from all over the world. In 2017, the two events attracted a total of around 100,000 visitors from 144 countries to Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre. In 2018, the Frankfurt Messe will reinforce the professional focus and synergies between the two shows.
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The Freedman Group Acquires FuzzMeasure and Launches RØDETest Division
by Joao Martins

The Freedman Group Acquires FuzzMeasure and Launches RØDETest Division

RØDE Microphones announced the establishment of a new Scientific Test and Measurement division, named RØDETest, which will house RØDE’s future line of measurement microphones and software. With the announcement comes the news that The Freedman Group has acquired FuzzMeazure, the audio and acoustic measurement software created by Chris Liscio of SuperMegaUltraGroovy.
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