audioXpress January 2025. Innovations in Audio. Product Development. The Best in DIY Audio

audioXpress January 2025. Innovations in Audio. Product Development. The Best in DIY Audio
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Start the Loudspeaker Year with Voice Coil January 2025

Start the Loudspeaker Year with Voice Coil January 2025
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The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities

The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities
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Bluetooth Wireless Audio, Innovations in Audio, and More in audioXpress December 2024

Bluetooth Wireless Audio, Innovations in Audio, and More in audioXpress December 2024
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ERATO Introduces Next-Generation VERSE True Wireless Earbuds with Graphene Drivers
by audioXpress Staff

ERATO Introduces Next-Generation VERSE True Wireless Earbuds with Graphene Drivers

ERATO Audio, the pioneers of true wireless earbuds, have revealed the latest addition to their product line, which already includes four other models. The next-generation ERATO VERSE earbuds feature a new 5.8mm graphene driver, and leverages the best features from its successful Apollo 7 design, also recently updated with the Apollo 7s model. Each earbud only weighs 4.5 grams, and the VERSE design is IPX5 water and sweat proof.
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Fluency-as-a-Service (FaaS) makes AI Voice Interfaces Available in Any Language
by audioXpress Staff

Fluency-as-a-Service (FaaS) makes AI Voice Interfaces Available in Any Language

Fluent.ai Inc., the company that claims to have created "the world’s first acoustic-only multi-lingual voice interface" is now offering an intuitive and flexible Platform-as-a-Service, FaaS, for developers. According to the company, the platform allows implementations of the company's artificial-intelligence solution to "quickly customize reliable and robust voice capabilities for consumer devices and cloud service applications."
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PoE Texas and CoolGear Join Forces on USB Type-C With Power Delivery On Power Over Ethernet
by Cristina Costa

PoE Texas and CoolGear Join Forces on USB Type-C With Power Delivery On Power Over Ethernet

As many manufacturers including Apple, Google, and Samsung standardize on USB Type-C (USB-C) with the new Power Delivery (PD) protocol, CoolGear and PoE Texas have joined forces to combine USB-C with PD and Power Over Ethernet, significantly lowering the cost of adopting USB-C by eliminating the need for new electrical infrastructure. In early 2018, PoE Texas will launch the POE-USBC-Kit and the AT-USBC-Kit with everything needed to use USB-C PD over Ethernet.
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    Comply Foam Earphone Tips Exhibits at CES for 10th Consecutive Year
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    Comply Foam Earphone Tips Exhibits at CES for 10th Consecutive Year

    Hearing Components, the manufacturers of Comply Foam earphone tips (www.complyfoam.com), will once again be exhibiting an array of its high-quality ear tips at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 9-12, 2018. This exciting event marks Comply's 10th consecutive appearance at CES and presents a unique opportunity for the brand to connect in person with distributors, resellers and OEM partners alike.
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    B&C Speakers Completes Eighteen Sound and Ciare Acquisition
    by audioXpress Staff

    B&C Speakers Completes Eighteen Sound and Ciare Acquisition

    As anticipated back in October 2017, B&C Speakers SpA confirmed that the acquisition of Eighteen Sound was completed on Monday December 11, 2017. The acquisition of 100% of Eighteen Sound from the Landi Renzo Group represents a formidable expansion of B&C's business, entering new loudspeaker market segments, and creating a powerful portfolio of products for all types of speaker applications, all from its existing and newly-acquired Italy-based operations.
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    3D Sound Labs and VideoLAN Partner on 3D Audio for VLC Media Player
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    3D Sound Labs and VideoLAN Partner on 3D Audio for VLC Media Player

    3D Sound Labs, the 3D/VR Audio French specialist, and VideoLAN, the editor of the world's renowned VLC media player jointly announced their collaboration to bring world-class experience to 360° video and 3D audio content in the upcoming version of VLC. The release 3.0 of VLC introduces 360° video and high-quality 3D Audio rendering. It supports multichannel and well as ambisonics audio content up to 3rd order ambisonics.
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    Listen Announces SoundCheck 16 Release
    by audioXpress Staff

    Listen Announces SoundCheck 16 Release

    Listen announced the release of SoundCheck 16, its flagship audio measurement software. With a consistent schedule of product updates since the original launch in 1995, the new release of SoundCheck includes a bundle of new features that expand its capability and simplify ease of use. A completely re-designed THD+N analysis algorithm is now more accurate and significantly faster than other audio test systems, and is compliant with the AES17 stan­dard.
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    Mixcloud Taps Gracenote for Advanced Music Recognition to Improve Royalty Payment Process for Rights Holders
    by audioXpress Staff

    Mixcloud Taps Gracenote for Advanced Music Recognition to Improve Royalty Payment Process for Rights Holders

    Gracenote, a Nielsen company, announced that it will power advanced music recognition for Mixcloud streaming platform, using next-generation audio fingerprinting to help identify and catalog copyrighted music within user-generated content. Using Gracenote's MusicID music recognition technology, Mixcloud will more accurately identify copyrighted audio content on its music platform to ensure proper royalty payments to rights holders.
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    ARKAMYS SoundStage Audio Software Now Available On AKM AK7738 DSP
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    ARKAMYS SoundStage Audio Software Now Available On AKM AK7738 DSP

    ARKAMYS, a French company specializing in digital sound processing for automotive solutions announced a partnership with Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM) to enhance in-vehicle immersive audio experience for drivers and passengers. ARKAMYS successfully ported its audio enhancement software solution SoundStage Core on AKM’s AK7738 digital signal processor (DSP), leveraging the platform capabilities to enhance the surround sound effect achieved inside the car.
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    Solid State Logic Acquired by Audiotonix Group
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    Solid State Logic Acquired by Audiotonix Group

    Audiotonix announced the acquisition of Solid State Logic (SSL) as part of its expanding Group that already includes leading British audio brands DiGiCo, DiGiGrid, Calrec and Allen & Heath. The deal, which was concluded December 20, 2017, brings together the top flight of the world’s mixing consoles companies. Peter Gabriel, the majority shareholder in Solid State Logic, becomes an investor in Audiotonix as part of the transaction.
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