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Audionamix Releases XTRAX STEMS Fully-Automatic 3 STEM Separator
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Audionamix Releases XTRAX STEMS Fully-Automatic 3 STEM Separator

Audionamix has been pioneering audio source separation techniques, allowing separating voice or selected instruments from existing recordings. Audionamix' ADX Product Suite is now an established software tool to separate speech and melodic content from a mono or stereo recording or full mix. Now, the company has released XTRAX STEMS, the world's first fully-automatic stem creator, allowing to easily separate any song into its drum, vocal and remaining music components.
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Leema Acoustics Announces Pulse IV Integrated Amplifier with Bluetooth, Phono Stage and 7-Input DAC
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Leema Acoustics Announces Pulse IV Integrated Amplifier with Bluetooth, Phono Stage and 7-Input DAC

Leema Acoustics’ new Pulse IV is a highly versatile and powerful integrated amplifier that enables a world of music to be enjoyed with high sound quality thanks to a huge connectivity suite bringing together music playback in all its forms, whether on vinyl, streamed from smartphones and tablets via aptX Bluetooth, or stored on computers, laptops and more.
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DirectOut Technologies Integrates Waves SoundGrid in Its SG.MADI Converter
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DirectOut Technologies Integrates Waves SoundGrid in Its SG.MADI Converter

Waves Audio has joined forces with networking, routing and conversion specialist DirectOut Technologies to include Waves SoundGrid technology in DirectOut’s SG.MADI converter. DirectOut Technologies' latest development, SG.MADI, is an audio format converter that links MADI signals with Waves SoundGrid Audio-over-Ethernet. The unit includes analog I/Os allow for immediate interfacing with the network audio and the MADI signal, including two microphone inputs.
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66 Audio Takes Alexa Voice Recognition Out of Home with PRO Voice Wireless Headphones
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66 Audio Takes Alexa Voice Recognition Out of Home with PRO Voice Wireless Headphones

Alexa, let's go for a walk? 66 Audio, a company from California, focused on wireless consumer audio technology, unveiled its PRO Voice Bluetooth Wireless Headphones with built-in Amazon Alexa voice recognition. The PRO Voice is basically an implementation of the brand's BTS Pro Wireless Headphones, optimized for Alexa use outside the home, and deliver a fluid voice experience anywhere the user has Internet connection (and Alexa is available...).
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Listen Technologies Acquires Audio Everywhere Brand and Assistive Listening Products
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Listen Technologies Acquires Audio Everywhere Brand and Assistive Listening Products

Listen Technologies, a leading provider of assistive listening products for more than 18 years, has acquired the Audio Everywhere brand and products from ExXothermic, a developer or Wi-Fi streaming technology with four related patents. The technology, which Listen was already licensing, offers a low-cost assistive listening solution for smartphones that utilizes existing wireless networks for plug and play audio streaming.
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XMOS Enables Far-Field Voice Technology for Pegatron Martina Smart Speaker Interface to Google Cloud Services
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XMOS Enables Far-Field Voice Technology for Pegatron Martina Smart Speaker Interface to Google Cloud Services

XMOS confirmed that its VocalFusion voice technology has been selected by leading electronic and computing Design and Manufacturing Service (DMS) firm, Pegatron Corporation, for its new smart voice assistant Martina. Pegatron’s Martina is powered by XMOS' XVF3000 voice processor, delivering crystal clear voice capture, with connection to Google Cloud Services and natural language recognition technology in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.
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Texas Instruments Announces New Zero-Drift Lowest-Power Op Amp
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Texas Instruments Announces New Zero-Drift Lowest-Power Op Amp

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the first operational amplifier (op amp) to combine ultra-high precision with the industry's lowest supply current. With exceptional power-to-precision performance, the LPV821 zero-drift, nanopower op amp enables engineers to attain the highest DC precision, while consuming 60 percent less power than competitive zero-drift devices. The LPV821 is designed for use in precision applications such as wireless sensing nodes, home and factory automation equipment, and portable electronics.
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Pascal Appoints new Account Manager as Growth Continues
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Pascal Appoints new Account Manager as Growth Continues

Danish OEM amplifier module provider for pro audio applications, Pascal A/S, announced the appointment of Mads Hother Høpfner as Account Manager. The appointment is in direct response to the continuing growing rate of expansion at the Copenhagen based company. Høpfner brings six years of sales, marketing and purchase experience in the surface technology industry to his new position at Pascal. He joins Key Account Managers Aage Hejgaard and Nikolaj Pihl in Pascal's expanded account team.
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Apogee and Sennheiser Pitch AMBEO Smart Headset to a Wider Audience
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Apogee and Sennheiser Pitch AMBEO Smart Headset to a Wider Audience

Apogee and Sennheiser announced that its co-developed Sennheiser AMBEO Smart Headset is now available at Apple.com and Apple Stores in the US, just in time for the holidays. And it's now available in black, for those channels. An interesting note about the announcement is that, since the binaural headset was launched in May 2017, Sennheiser is now promoting it in a slightly different way, highlighting its use more as a hearing enhancer and high-quality listening device.
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Clair Brothers Expands One Series with New Self-Powered Stage Monitor
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Clair Brothers Expands One Series with New Self-Powered Stage Monitor

Clair Brothers expanded its highly successful line of One Series 12- and 15-inch coaxial stage monitors with a self-powered version of the 1.5AM monitor called the 1.5AM+, using an amplifier module made exclusively for Clair by Powersoft. Additionally, the 1.5AM+’s internal, factory-programmed DSP loudspeaker processing gives users Xover, EQ, Limiter, and a total of four preset options.
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