All items tagged with audio processing (194)
New Widex Allure Hearing Aid Platform Combines Advanced Processing with First Cloud-Based Fitting Solution
March 19, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

New Widex Allure Hearing Aid Platform Combines Advanced Processing with First Cloud-Based Fitting Solution

Underscoring its commitment to helping hearing aid wearers, Widex, a part of WS Audiology, announced Widex Allure, the company’s newest platform, designed to deliver the most natural hearing experience in any environment. Allure features the all-new W1 chip for advanced processing and are the first RIC RD hearing aids to be fitted through Widex Compass Cloud, the world's first cloud-based fitting software.
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Universal Audio Apollo E Series Expands Dante Networking Possibilities
March 19, 2025 by Joao Martins

Universal Audio Apollo E Series Expands Dante Networking Possibilities

Responding to the popularity of audio networking solutions for studios and stage, Universal Audio announced the Apollo E Series of PoE peripherals for Dante‑networked audio systems and the Apollo x16D audio interface. The new Apollo e1x adds remote-controllable Unison mic/line preamps to the Apollo x16D, while the Apollo e2m expands Dante networked systems with I/O and monitor control, enabling acclaimed UAD plug‑ins to work directly over Dante.
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First Dirac-Enabled Denon Automotive Sound System Presented at CES 2025
January 14, 2025 by Joao Martins

First Dirac-Enabled Denon Automotive Sound System Presented at CES 2025

Building upon extensive collaborations in the home theater and headphone markets, Dirac and Denon have expanded their partnership to the automotive market. At CES 2025, the two companies showcased the first result of their automotive industry collaboration in a Denon Car Audio Concept System enabled by Dirac, showcasing upmixed, spatialized sound, in collaboration with other Audio Foundry partners Tymphany and Sonified by Trèves Group.
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EssilorLuxottica Acquires Competitor Startup Pulse Audition
January 3, 2025 by Joao Martins

EssilorLuxottica Acquires Competitor Startup Pulse Audition

EssilorLuxottica just expanded its presence in the hearing space with the acquisition of an AI-driven tech startup in France and its talented team. The company, Pulse Audition, is just one of hundred of startups currently pursuing the concept of hearing glasses, in this case adding an edge with unique AI-based speech enhancement and noise reduction processing technologies embedded in the frames. The technology promises to accelerate the Nuance Hearing Glasses project.
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Alango Unveils Hearing Augmentation Technology on Snapdragon S7 at CES 2025
December 20, 2024 by Joao Martins

Alango Unveils Hearing Augmentation Technology on Snapdragon S7 at CES 2025

Hearables and hearing augmentation applications are major trends for consumer electronics, and at CES 2025 Alango Technologies will reveal what the company describes as "a transformative breakthrough". As a member of the Qualcomm Voice and Music Extension Program, Alango will be one of the first companies to unveil a complete hearing augmentation solution running on Qualcomm Technologies' advanced Snapdragon S7 Sound platform. This collaboration allows Alango to bring a ready-to-market solution for personalized audio in true wireless earbuds.
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IDUN Audio Partners with Merry Electronics to Enable Spatial Audio in New Headphone Designs
December 17, 2024 by Joao Martins

IDUN Audio Partners with Merry Electronics to Enable Spatial Audio in New Headphone Designs

IDUN audio, the Danish embedded spatial audio technology specialists announced a strategic partnership with Taiwan-based Merry Electronics. IDUN audio will showcase three new spatial audio integrations for personal audio during CES 2025, all running on Merry's brand new reference designs for true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds, a new OWS open ear clip solution, and the recently announced new dual driver headphones.
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STMicroelectronics NPU-Accelerated STM32 Microcontrollers Boost Edge AI Development
December 13, 2024 by Cristina Costa

STMicroelectronics NPU-Accelerated STM32 Microcontrollers Boost Edge AI Development

STMicroelectronics is making embedded artificial intelligence (AI) on-device widely available with its new STM32 microcontroller series. These new NPU-accelerated microcontrollers, which have been available to selected companies since October 2023 and are now available in high volumes, integrate accelerated machine-learning (ML) capabilities for the first time. This makes it possible to run computer vision, audio processing, sound analysis and more directly in low-power, cost-sensitive products.
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Fraunhofer to Present Uphear Flexible Rendering at CES 2025
December 5, 2024 by Joao Martins

Fraunhofer to Present Uphear Flexible Rendering at CES 2025

Once again the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (Fraunhofer IIS) will present its most recent advanced audio technologies at CES 2025. Targeting new consumer audio applications, the highlight will be upHear Flexible Rendering, a new technology that automatically combines all available speakers to generate an enveloping immersive sound field. This greatly simplifies high-quality immersive sound experiences on consumer audio reproduction devices, including loudspeakers, soundbars, and TVs.
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Alango Unveils Sound Processing Module for Qualcomm S7 SoC
November 4, 2024 by Joao Martins

Alango Unveils Sound Processing Module for Qualcomm S7 SoC

Alango Technologies announced a new digital sound processing module for Qualcomm's Bluetooth SoCs, including the latest S7 Gen1 Sound platform that features five times the compute power, three times the DSP processing power, and almost 100 times on-device AI processing power compared to previous solutions. According to Alango, this first to market platform offers a pre-integrated, ready-to-use modular solution for the latest generation of hearables and advanced audio designs.
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Røde Appoints Nick Engel as Senior Director of Engineering
October 9, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Røde Appoints Nick Engel as Senior Director of Engineering

Røde announced the appointment of Nick Engel as Senior Director of Engineering. Nick joins Røde with a wealth of experience in the audio technology industry, having held senior engineering positions at Dolby and Apple. With over 20 years of experience developing cutting-edge audio technology for consumer products, Nick is a key hire as Røde continues to innovate and expand its product offerings into entirely new frontiers.
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