Amazon Implements Multi-Room Music with Alexa Control and Announces New Alexa Developer Tools for Third-Party Alexa-Enabled Systems

Amazon announced an all-new Alexa feature that allows users to control and synchronize music streaming across multiple Amazon Echo devices in the home. Not only target music to a specific Amazon device or a group of devices - such as the Dot, Echo Show, and regular Echo speaker - but also reach third-party AVS devices. New Alexa Developer Tools to extend the ability to control multi-room music on other connected audio systems using voice commands will be available in 2018.

Skyworks Solutions announced it has partnered with embedded Wi-Fi and wireless technology specialist, Libre Wireless, to deliver advanced products for wireless audio and smart home applications. Libre Wireless is leveraging multiple RF solutions from Skyworks to enable their leading media modules targeting wireless audio, smart voice services and assistants, among other smart home applications.

Frontier Silicon, a leading software and development solutions provider for consumer audio devices, and Marvell, specialized in storage, cloud infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity and multimedia semiconductor solutions, have extended their collaboration to develop a new generation of smart audio technologies. Frontier is including Marvell’s Dynamic Multi-Hop Relay (DMHR) technology in its new Google Cast-enabled smart audio module, Minuet.

StreamUnlimited, a provider of software solutions and development modules for connected audio products, announced TIDAL has certified StreamSDK, its streaming and multi-room audio integration solution, as an approved product module for companies who incorporate the service into its products. TIDAL’s certification will allow audio manufacturers to bring products to market much easier and faster.