The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI), an initiative launched in January 2020 by the Audio Engineering Society to promote methodologies, practices and technologies involved in developing and bringing audio products to market, will host a sequence of online events centered on some of its most dynamic education pillars. June 2021 will see APEI promoting four educational sessions with top industry experts and companies in each area of expertise.
Activities will kick-off already Wednesday, June 2, 2021 - 9:00 AM Pacific (12:00 PM Eastern), with a sessions focused on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Voice Interfaces on the Edge. This will be the first AI&ML event since Steve F. Willenborg accepted to chair this APEI education pillar. An international executive with a strong background in engineering and business development for multiple product market segments, Steve’s career spans for over 35 years, with some of the most iconic companies in audio, consumer electronics and automotive. Currently VP of Sales at Linkplay Technology, he is directly involved in supporting companies and brands in the development of smart audio solutions, software/firmware development, and wireless audio, device cloud software and streaming content integration.
In this APEI event, Steve Willenborg will provide an introduction to the product development process, and explore the tools and technologies for designing and integrating AI & ML into products. He will be joined by Jeff Rogers, Co-Founder & VP of Sales at Sensory, explaining the potential of AI and ML on the edge, introducing some of Sensory’s key technologies for voice interfaces completely implemented on-device, and address the development of new voice UIs in smart home products, appliances and even toys.
The next APEI online event follows a week after, with an Automotive Audio session on Remote Sound Tuning in Automobiles, June 9, 2021 9:00 AM Pacific (12:00 PM Eastern). This webinar will discuss tools and practices for remotely measuring a car audio system, visualizing the data, auralizing it and tuning it with very close accuracy to the in-vehicle experience. Roger Shively ((JJR Acoustics, LLC) APEI's Automotive Pillar Chair, together with Shelley Uprichard, independent audio engineer, will co-host the session and present on the subjective evaluation work.
Marc Levasseur, independent audio engineer and consultant, with extensive experience in automotive audio sound tuning, will describe his use of Illusonic's solutions, together with Christof Faller (Illusonic founder), who will demonstrate auralization with head-tracking and headphone compensation equalization. Finally, Michael Fabry, General Manager at DSP Concepts Germany, former founder of S1nn, and manager of audio systems for companies such as Harman/Becker and Bose, will demonstrate capturing the acoustics footprint and offline tuning. The two hour session will conclude with an opportunity for questions from attendees.
Precisely a week after, on June 16 at 9:00 AM Pacific (12:00 PM Eastern), a new APEI Modeling and Measurement webinar will explain Achieving Loudspeaker Design Goals Using Multiphysics Simulation. In this webinar, Lakshmikanth Tipparaju, Senior Acoustic System and Transducer Engineer at Dolby Laboratories, and Jinlan Huang, COMSOL Applications Engineer, will discuss on the role of modeling and measurements in the loudspeaker design process.
Tipparaju will share project experiences in the design of a height channel speaker for immersive audio setups, and how simulation, measurements, and experiments helped to ensure that the design met the requirements. In the second talk, Huang will detail the use of simulation in audio system design and the various numerical approaches to consider for multiphysics modeling of loudspeakers.
Still in June, on June 23 at the same time of the day, the always insightful series of Audio Product Education Institute webinars focusing on Supply Chain & Sourcing will offer the perspectives of two well-established design houses to discuss their role and contributions as a critical option supporting brands in all critical stages of development, and how those companies explore different perspectives in audio design and engineering. Details will be confirmed soon on the APEI website.
More detailed content information, speaker bios, and registration for each of these events is available in the Audio Product Education Institute website, in the respective event pages.
Registration is now open for the June 2 event: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Voice Interfaces on the Edge. Zoom Registration link avaiable here.
The Audio Product Education Institute (APEI) was launched in January 2020, as an initiative of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), to focus on promoting methodologies, practices and technologies involved in developing and bringing audio products to market. The Institute roadmap intends to focus on seven educational pillars: Voice and DSP; Supply Chain and Sourcing; Modeling and Measurement; Product Management; Automotive Audio; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; and Business Management. For more information, visit www.audioproducteducationinstitute.org
