All items tagged with consumer electronics (213)

Sennheiser Steps Up with New HD 450BT and HD 350BT Wireless Headphones

January 29, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Steps Up with New HD 450BT and HD 350BT Wireless Headphones

Designed to offer great sound every day, the new Sennheiser HD 450BT and HD 350BT around-the-ear Bluetooth 5.0 headphones, first presented during CES 2020, offer a winning combination of improved audio quality, 30-hour battery life and instant voice assistant access. The HD 450BT also features active noise cancellation so no matter how loud the environment, it’s possible to enjoy a truly captivating audio experience without any distractions.

Never Stop Disrupting. Good Enough Is Never Enough!

January 17, 2020 by Joao Martins

Never Stop Disrupting. Good Enough Is Never Enough!

Post-CES 2020 Impressions. "CES is over but we’re just getting started!" That’s the optimistic vision propagated by many companies who just attended the gigantic Las Vegas event and they leave without really knowing if it was a success or not. Because this is no longer the old days when audio companies would leave CES with their order books filled. Currently, all you have are “contacts” and “great meetings” and little else to backup the promises of future business. And that’s the most important game after all at a show like CES. That and the media hallo effect that new product presentations might have caused.

December 19, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Xperi to Merge with TiVo to Create a Leading Brand in Consumer & Entertainment Technology and IP Licensing

Xperi Corporation - the owner of DTS and HD Radio - and TiVo Corporation announced they entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction, representing approximately $3 billion of combined enterprise value. The transaction creates a much larger consumer and entertainment technology business and one of the industry’s largest intellectual property (IP) licensing platforms with a diverse portfolio of entertainment and semiconductor intellectual property.

Audio Collaborative 2019: Way Beyond the Trends

November 21, 2019 by Joao Martins

Audio Collaborative 2019: Way Beyond the Trends

Promoted every year by the market research firm Futuresource Consulting, Audio Collaborative 2019 full-day conference on November 7 was invaluable, with Futuresource's leading market analysts and researchers sharing some of the latest stats and trends on the topics in the agenda, combined with great panels and in-between keynotes. This is the first of my reports, originally published in The Audio Voice newsletter.

Acconeer and Imagimob Combine Radar Technology and Edge AI for Gesture Control Applications

November 12, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Acconeer and Imagimob Combine Radar Technology and Edge AI for Gesture Control Applications

By combining Edge AI software from Imagimob, a company specializing in artificial intelligence development, with Pulsed Coherent Radar technology from Acconeer, the radar sensor specialists, the two Swedish companies have created an innovative platform for gesture control that is perfect for consumer electronics products. Scheduled to be demonstrated at CES 2020 (January 7-10) in Las Vegas, the solution will be implemented for application with wireless headphones, trained to recognize five hand gestures with high accuracy and close to zero latency.

China: 90% of Users Love Their Smart Speakers - 88% in the UK

October 21, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

China: 90% of Users Love Their Smart Speakers - 88% in the UK

The exploding popularity of smart speakers in China is confirmed by findings from the latest Strategy Analytics consumer survey. The report, 2019 Smart Speaker User Survey – China Results, found that 63% of people who do not currently use a smart speaker plan to buy one within the next year. Another 22% say they will purchase a smart speaker later on, suggesting that smart speakers overall should reach at least another 85% of the population.

Technology and Innovation Returns To Las Vegas for CES Show 2020

October 18, 2019 by Nora Wong

Technology and Innovation Returns To Las Vegas for CES Show 2020

Promoted every year by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), CES is certainly the largest and most influential consumer technology show in the world, increasingly the place where trends are revealed for the rest of the year, and where both the largest brands and the most promising start-ups get a vital boost to their marketing. Increasingly, the CES Show is also a vibrant market for technology vendors and suppliers and this year, from January 7-10, the #CES2020 promises to be a defining moment for the audio industry.

Chirp and DSP Group Unveil Reference Design for Sound-Based Data Transmission

October 14, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Chirp and DSP Group Unveil Reference Design for Sound-Based Data Transmission

Chirp, the pioneer of data-over-sound technology, and DSP Group, the specialist in wireless chipsets for smart-enabled devices, announced a turnkey solution leveraging embedded data-over-sound to improve user experiences with enhanced provisioning for consumer applications. The design kit combines Chirp’s ultrasonic signaling protocol for smart-enabled devices with DSP Group’s SmartVoice technology to allow connectivity between nearby devices without requiring any set up, pairing, or configuration.

Smart Speaker Market to Reach 92 Million Units Shipped in 2019

September 18, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Smart Speaker Market to Reach 92 Million Units Shipped in 2019

The smart speaker market will grow by 35% this year, according to SAR Insight & Consulting’s Latest Digital Assistant Platform Forecast DATAbase, with shipments reaching 92 million. Amazon remains the market leader, but its smart speaker market share has declined and now represents approximately a third (33%) of the total volume anticipated in 2019. Total voice software unit shipments are expected to increase significantly to 2024.

Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) Awards 2019-2020 in Audio Categories

August 15, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) Awards 2019-2020 in Audio Categories

Following last year's evolution of the (former) European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) to the new (global) acronym Expert Imaging & Sound Association, coinciding with the admission of new members from all over the world, including the United States, the traditional winners of its 2019-2020 Awards have been announced. As always, audioXpress highlights all the audio-related winers in the Hi-Fi, Home Theatre Audio, In-Car and Mobile Devices categories. And there are a few surprises!

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