Fraunhofer Cingo and upHear Now Integrated with Tymphany's Peerless Flow DSP

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, and Tymphany have partnered to provide state-of-the-art spatial audio solutions to audio manufacturers. The two companies have worked together to integrate Fraunhofer's audio processing suites and audio technologies into Flow DSP, Tymphany's own DSP platform and design framework which allows creating immersive audio features in new audio products.

DSP Concepts announced that its Audio Weaver development platform for audio products now also offers access to the Fraunhofer Cingo family of immersive processing tools. The agreement with Fraunhofer IIS allows audio product developers to enhance headphones, earbuds and speakers with binaural audio processing for immersive 3D sound with head tracking, as well as enhance existing stereo content, including loudness optimization and equalization. Cingo supports all channel-based formats and direct rendering of audio objects with associated position metadata, which can be transmitted as MPEG-H Audio.

German company New Audio Technology (NAT) and Plugivery Distribution, have announced a collaboration to make NAT's Spatial Audio Technology products available to sound designers, musicians, producers, and mixing engineers worldwide. With musicians highly invested in mixing to immersive audio formats, NAT's Spatial Audio Designer plug-ins are an affordable range of audio tools for creating and monitoring any surround or spatial audio format with speakers or regular headphones.

Call it immersive audio (which is mostly the case in the live sound, broadcast and performance industry), or call it spatial audio, independently of the format used for mixing, users want to control how the result will sound on headphones. L-Acoustics updated its L-ISA Studio software, originally created to allow the creation of immersive audio mixes independently of the target reproduction system, now supporting object-based binaural rendering to headphones from a Mac laptop.

Monitoring Dolby Atmos immersive content through headphones using binaural rendering of all the complex, object-based and multichannel information is both a challenge and an attractive option for audio engineers and content professionals. With strong momentum towards Dolby Atmos and spatial audio, Dolby decided to accelerate it's Personalized Head-Related Transfer Function (PHRTF) initiative, and announced beta availability of the new Dolby Atmos Personalized Rendering app and service.

Swedish digital audio processing pioneer Dirac and Sudio, the Swedish consumer electronics design house, announced a collaboration on Sudio’s new flagship E2 true wireless stereo earbuds, featuring Dirac Virtuo spatial audio. Founded in 2012, Sudio sits firmly at the center of Sweden’s visionary audio tech scene, and this collaboration with Dirac for the cutting-edge Sudio E2 earphones reflects the companies’ unrivaled strengths in combining breakthrough sound performance and elevated product design.

Hearing aid manufacturer Oticon is challenging once again the conventions of hearing aid technology and looking at ways to leverage the latest advancements in edge-processing. The company launched Oticon More, the first-ever hearing aid built with an on-board deep neural network (DNN), to give people with mild-to-severe hearing loss a fuller, more balanced and more effortless hearing experience. The goal is to enhance hearing with an AI engine trained on real-life sounds.