All items tagged with consumer electronics (220)
DSP Concepts and CloudNav Partnership Brings Best-in-Class Sensor Fusion Technology to Audio Weaver
February 24, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

DSP Concepts and CloudNav Partnership Brings Best-in-Class Sensor Fusion Technology to Audio Weaver

DSP Concepts, the audio platform powering more than 50M devices for many of the world’s best consumer and automotive brands, announced a partnership with CloudNav to bring its sensor fusion technology to Audio Weaver. This means that developers can seamlessly deploy CloudNav’s Performance Fusion technology through Audio Weaver’s drag-and-drop graphical interface to integrate and automatically calibrate inertial sensors for optimal product performance.
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DSP Concepts Opens Advanced Design Center in Mexico
February 17, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

DSP Concepts Opens Advanced Design Center in Mexico

DSP Concepts, maker of the Audio Weaver platform and a leading company in embedded audio development, announced it has opened a design center in Queretaro, Mexico. The center is host to a team of engineers that are focused on audio for automotive and consumer electronics, with an emphasis on customer engagement, product development, and test and validation. DSP Concepts plans to double the headcount in Queretaro by the end of 2021.
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Sennheiser Repositions Its Business Units to Grow Independently
February 16, 2021 by Joao Martins

Sennheiser Repositions Its Business Units to Grow Independently

Sennheiser announced a new strategic direction for the company. Sennheiser plans to focus on its Professional business in the future and aims to secure a partnership to strengthen its market position in Consumer Electronics. According to Andreas and Daniel Sennheiser, co-CEOs, with this decision to build greater independence for its business units, Sennheiser will be better prepared to continue on its course. The search for a potential investor in the consumer division is now open.
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StreamUnlimited Announces Feature Updates for StreamSDK
February 16, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

StreamUnlimited Announces Feature Updates for StreamSDK

StreamUnlimited's StreamSDK is a flexible software solution, portable to various classes of silicon, which enables the application of streaming audio functionalities to consumer electronics devices. Even under the current circumstances, the Austrian company has allowed to company to expand its software stack to support highly desirable features, spanning from Apple AirPlay2 and Amazon Micless-MRM, Tidal Connect, expanded voice assistant support and new immersive audio integrations.
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Despite Pandemic, Global Consumer Electronics Revenues Rose 7% in 2020
February 4, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Despite Pandemic, Global Consumer Electronics Revenues Rose 7% in 2020

While most analysts and market intelligence firms predicted significant declines in the first months of the COVID-19 global pandemic, it seems that the global consumer electronics sector did very well, given the circumstances. According to Strategy Analytics latest report Global Consumer Electronics Market Forecasts 2014-2024, consumer electronics revenues rose 7% in 2020, reaching $358.5Bn. Home computers, tablets and games consoles led the way.
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All the CES 2021 Innovation Awards in Audio
January 9, 2021 by Joao Martins

All the CES 2021 Innovation Awards in Audio

As an annual tradition, celebrating outstanding design and engineering in technology, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the CES 2021 Innovation Awards honorees, including those products recognized as Best of Innovation. audioXpress looks at all the audio products and accessories that are included among the multiple categories, from personal audio to high-performance home audio, audio components, and smart home.
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Agreement Between DSP Concepts and Cambridge Consultants Accelerates Audio Product Development and Voice Innovation
January 8, 2021 by Joao Martins

Agreement Between DSP Concepts and Cambridge Consultants Accelerates Audio Product Development and Voice Innovation

Cambridge Consultants, part of Capgemini, and DSP Concepts, the creators of Audio Weaver, the audio DSP platform powering some of the world’s best consumer and automotive brands, announced an agreement that will see Cambridge Consultants offering deep audio product development expertise and technology to the many audio brands in the fast-growing DSP Concepts ecosystem. Cambridge Consultants will be also adding its own voice detection processing to Audio Weaver.
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EarFun Sets Record for Lightest ANC Wireless Earbuds with New EarFun Free Pro
December 7, 2020 by Joao Martins

EarFun Sets Record for Lightest ANC Wireless Earbuds with New EarFun Free Pro

EarFun is one of those consumer brands, established in 2018 by an experienced group of industrial designers and acoustic engineers, focused on next-generation wireless audio devices and leveraging their manufacturing network in Shenzhen, China. Committed to deliver solutions that use the latest technology and improve sound quality, the EarFun engineering team has been pushing the envelope on how affordable and sophisticated true wireless earbuds can be. With the new EarFun Free Pro, the brand seems to have come full circle.
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Registration Opens for the First All-Digital CES 2021
December 4, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Registration Opens for the First All-Digital CES 2021

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that registration is now open for the first-ever, all-digital CES 2021 – on track to become one of the largest digital events. The world's most influential technology event will open its digital doors, Jan. 11-14, 2021, bringing the global tech community together for next-gen product announcements, press events and keynotes from industry visionaries.
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Practical Test & Measurement: What to Measure for Quality Control of Audio Devices
December 3, 2020 by Dan Knighten

Practical Test & Measurement: What to Measure for Quality Control of Audio Devices

In this Test & Measurement article from Dan Knighten (Audio Precision), the author focuses on the practical question of manufacturing test strategies and objectives and shares what measurements reveal about the device under test, offers suggestions for specific measurements, and provides techniques for various devices and scenarios. This article was originally published in audioXpress, November 2020.
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