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The Audio Engineering Society Welcomes Josh Reiss as President for 2022
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The Audio Engineering Society Welcomes Josh Reiss as President for 2022

The Audio Engineering Society welcomes Josh Reiss as the Society’s president for 2022. Reiss, whose term of service began on January 1, has garnered honors and accolades for his work with the AES and beyond, through his numerous published research papers, as well as through his many roles in helping advance the Society via events and education.
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GaN Systems and Axign Demonstrate New 500W Class-D Reference Audio Amplifier
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GaN Systems and Axign Demonstrate New 500W Class-D Reference Audio Amplifier

GaN Systems, the leading GaN power semiconductor specialist and audio technology innovator Axign, debuted a new groundbreaking GaN-based 500W Class-D audio amplifier. This reference design merges best-in-class technologies, including GaN Systems’ GaN power transistors and Axign’s Class-D controller, enabling companies to create unique audio systems that are smaller, sleeker, more efficient, more powerful, and provide better audio quality than previous generations.
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Syntiant Announces Voice-Enabled Ultra-Low-Power Reference Design for TWS Earbud Applications
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Syntiant Announces Voice-Enabled Ultra-Low-Power Reference Design for TWS Earbud Applications

Syntiant, the company focused on making edge AI a reality for always-on applications, announced a new reference design that will enable ODMs and OEMs to easily and quickly deploy ultra-low-power, edge AI voice processing applications in true wireless earbuds. The solution enables multi-lingual custom wake words and speech commands, supported by data training and modeling, providing a complete, end-to-end solution for edge AI processing.
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GaN Systems Updates Reference Design for Class-D Audio Amplifiers
by Joao Martins

GaN Systems Updates Reference Design for Class-D Audio Amplifiers

GaN Systems, the GaN (gallium nitride) power transistor specialist, announced an updated version of its Class-D audio amplifier evaluation kit, allowing evaluation for high-efficiency audio reference designs. Evolving from the original evaluation kit introduced in 2020, GaN Systems released the GeN2 amplifier and companion switched-mode power supply reference design today, shrinking the size and increasing its capabilities for Class-D audio designs.
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Dirac Combines Suite of Automotive Sound Solutions in New Intelligent Audio Platform
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Dirac Combines Suite of Automotive Sound Solutions in New Intelligent Audio Platform

Dirac’s new Intelligent Audio Platform (IAP) is a complete solution for automotive sound in all types of car models. The modular platform, already trusted and endorsed by Volvo, Rolls Royce, NIO, BYD, or Harman, offers patented optimization and spatialization solutions, easy tuning and measurement, and an all-new way of upmixing standard stereo content to create immersive sound experiences. And Dirac IAP offers a complete software suite with a unified interface for sound design and optimization.
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Fluent.ai and Knowles Partner to Deliver True Wireless Stereo Voice Control
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Fluent.ai and Knowles Partner to Deliver True Wireless Stereo Voice Control

Fluent.ai announced its collaboration with Knowles Corporation to deliver AI-powered voice control for True Wireless Stereo (TWS) earbuds and other hearable products, fully on-device. Running on Knowles' AISonic processors, providing a small footprint embedded technology for edge AI, the solution allows developers to implement noise robust voice commands to trigger TWS actions in any language or accent, without the need for an Internet connection or accompanying smartphone app.
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Circulr and Mimi Hearing Technologies Partner to Deliver Sound Personalization to Smart Audio Neckphones
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Circulr and Mimi Hearing Technologies Partner to Deliver Sound Personalization to Smart Audio Neckphones

Mimi Hearing Technologies announced a new partnership with Circulr Sound, the Danish startup developing a new concept of personal AI audio devices called Hybrid Neckphones. Circulr Sound will bring Mimi Sound Personalization to its Smart Audio Wearables concept, allowing users to adapt the audio signal to their unique hearing ability. The implementation should enable interesting possibilities given Circulr's unique concept and awareness requirements.
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MaxLinear WAV600 Series-2 Chipset Selected for Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 Certification Test Bed
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MaxLinear WAV600 Series-2 Chipset Selected for Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 Certification Test Bed

MaxLinear, the provider of radio frequency (RF), analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits, headquartered in Carlsbad, California, announced that their WAV600 Series-2 Chipset SoCs have been selected as access point test bed devices for the Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 Release 2 certification process. The test bed uses a MaxLinear WAV615 and two MaxLinear WAV665 Wi-Fi Transceiver SoCs to enable tri-band interoperability testing at 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz, delivering on performance and increased network capacity.
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CEVA Expands TWS Earbuds Development Possibilities with New Bluebud-HD Package
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CEVA Expands TWS Earbuds Development Possibilities with New Bluebud-HD Package

CEVA announced Bluebud-HD, a pre-configured software package for its Bluebud wireless audio platform that includes all the audio, voice and context-aware software required in premium TWS earbuds, gaming headsets, hearables, and other smart audio products. The company also updated its SenslinQ software framework and DSP tool kit for Bluebud that streamlines software migration from other processor architectures to the CEVA-BX1 DSP and virtualizes DSP programming for application developers.
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Dirac Introduces Upmixing Technology for Transforming Stereo Content Into Immersive, Multichannel Audio
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Dirac Introduces Upmixing Technology for Transforming Stereo Content Into Immersive, Multichannel Audio

Dirac is attending CES 2022 with an ambitious next-stage expansion of its digital audio processing suite. The Swedish company introduced its latest content-based upmixing technology, as part of the Dirac Virtuo spatial audio solution for automotive applications. The new upmixing feature enables true, immersive, multichannel audio, generated from a real-time analysis of existing stereo content.
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