All items tagged with CES 2021 (25)

Ams Adaptive Noise Cancellation Technology Powers JBL Over-Ear Headphones

April 15, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Ams Adaptive Noise Cancellation Technology Powers JBL Over-Ear Headphones

Announced earlier in January and scheduled to be available May 2021, the new JBL Tour ONE headphones will feature Harman's first adoption of Adaptive Leakage Compensation (ALC) technology from ams AG. ALC technology has already been deployed in various types of earbuds, including loose-fit earbuds, to provide consistently high noise attenuation as the earbud shifts position in the ear. Now Harman has deployed ams ALC technology in the JBL Tour One to provide the same consistency and high noise attenuation in over-ear headphones.

New Company PerListen Audio Aims Higher with Advanced Loudspeaker Designs

March 22, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

New Company PerListen Audio Aims Higher with Advanced Loudspeaker Designs

PerListen Audio, a new audio company founded by an experienced team of industry professionals, announced its intention to develop and bring to market a full line of THX Certified loudspeakers, bridging the gap between large home theater speakers and those used in movie theaters worldwide. All the new PerListen speakers feature state-of-the-art drivers, including beryllium tweeters, TexTreme woofers and carbon fiber midranges with advanced waveguides, all designed using advanced Comsol acoustic modeling.

OSTF Labs vMic Contact Microphone Improves Voice Capture

January 21, 2021 by Joao Martins

OSTF Labs vMic Contact Microphone Improves Voice Capture

Leveraging the expertise of its co-founders, OSTF Labs is a highly regarded research organization in the field of intelligent electronic systems with successful product applications. Their latest announcement, vMic, is a noise-free surface vibration microphone that senses speaking vibrations through contact with the skin near the throat. The solution was promoted at the Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) at Eureka Park during CES 2021 as part of the 100 featured Taiwanese startups.

Kakao Enterprise and DSP Concepts Raise the Bar for Voice Performance in Mini Hexa Smart Speaker

January 20, 2021 by Joao Martins

Kakao Enterprise and DSP Concepts Raise the Bar for Voice Performance in Mini Hexa Smart Speaker

DSP Concepts announced it partnered with South Korea's Kakao Enterprise to enable the voice user interface in its latest Mini Hexa smart speaker (KE-H200). The Mini Hexa is the company’s fourth smart device to be released and uses DSP Concepts’ TalkTo audio front end to eliminate unreferenced sound for far-field voice control in noisy and unpredictable environments. The result ensures flawless speech recognition regardless of external sound for an optimal user experience.

Earin Unveils Next-Generation a-3 True Wireless Earbuds With Compact Loose-Fit Design

January 19, 2021 by Joao Martins

Earin Unveils Next-Generation a-3 True Wireless Earbuds With Compact Loose-Fit Design

Earin, the technology company from Malmö, Sweden, and pioneer of the original true wireless concept, used CES 2021 to unveil its third-generation of premium earbuds, the A-3. Backed by an impressive Kickstarter community, Earin was one of the first companies to actually ship true wireless in-earphones in 2015 and they immediately set the bar high in extremely compact earbuds. The new A-3 is now a more mature Bluetooth 5 product that combines a new loose-fit design with improved audio quality.

Resonado Labs Debuts FCS Bidirectional Speaker Driver at CES 2021

January 18, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Resonado Labs Debuts FCS Bidirectional Speaker Driver at CES 2021

Audio technology startup Resonado Labs continues to expand on its patented Flat Core Speaker (FCS) technology, taking on conventional, century-old speaker principles. Evolving on its FCS principles, Resonado debuted a dual-sided speaker driver at CES 2021. FCS Bidirectional allows for a diaphragm to be bonded to both sides of a voice coil. This design offers unique opportunities for very wide sound coverage as well as being particularly well suited for dipole type loudspeaker systems.

Oticon Introduces Oticon More Hearing Aid with On-Board Deep Neural Network

January 18, 2021 by Joao Martins

Oticon Introduces Oticon More Hearing Aid with On-Board Deep Neural Network

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.

Klipsch Unveils T5 II True Wireless ANC Earphones with Bragi OS and Dirac Sound Optimization

January 15, 2021 by Joao Martins

Klipsch Unveils T5 II True Wireless ANC Earphones with Bragi OS and Dirac Sound Optimization

The results of an extended collaboration between Klipsch, Dirac and Bragi were finally unveiled at CES 2021. The famous consumer audio brand (a VOXX International company), teamed up with Dirac's digital audio processing experts, and the pioneers in hearables and creators of the Bragi Software Suite with embedded AI, to create the new Klipsch T5 II True Wireless ANC Earphones, which will be launched later in 2021.

Soundcore Launches True-Wireless Earbuds Liberty Air 2 Pro With Multi-Mode Noise Cancellation Technology

January 14, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Soundcore Launches True-Wireless Earbuds Liberty Air 2 Pro With Multi-Mode Noise Cancellation Technology

Anker Innovations introduced a next-generation true-wireless earbud model in its Soundcore brand. The Liberty Air 2 Pro presented at CES 2021 features advanced active noise-cancellation (ANC), transparency mode and uses the company's PureNote multi-coated driver technology. This a mid-priced true wireless ANC alternative with truly premium features and technology, showing how competitive the segment is becoming, and how hard for manufacturers it is to differentiate.

TDK Introduces Lowest Pulse Density Modulation Multi-Mode MEMS Microphone With Acoustic Activity Detect

January 13, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

TDK Introduces Lowest Pulse Density Modulation Multi-Mode MEMS Microphone With Acoustic Activity Detect

InvenSense, a TDK Group company, announced a comprehensive portfolio of new technology solutions during the 2021 Consumer Electronics Showcase. Among the expanded MEMS portfolio, the new T5838 SmartSound MEMS microphone offers a low power mode of just 130uAmps and a high-quality mode of 330uAmps, while supporting a dynamic range of 68dN SNR and 133dB AOP at 20kHz bandwidth. Optimized for smartphones, microphone arrays, smart speakers, and headsets, the T5838 supports configurable wake-on-sound at power levels as low as 20 µA.

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