All items tagged with digital signal processing (158)
Alango Technologies Confirms Partnership with BEStechnic for Advanced Hearing Enhancement
May 26, 2025 by Joao Martins

Alango Technologies Confirms Partnership with BEStechnic for Advanced Hearing Enhancement

Alango Technologies announced a collaboration with BEStechnic to deliver new advanced designs for hearing enhancement and augmentation based on that company's ultra-low power Bluetooth Smart Audio platforms. Alango is now fully leveraging the latest BES2800YP SoC to run its advanced DSP software, introducing a new feature-rich solution for hearable devices, such as true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds and smart glasses.
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Outboard DSP: miniDSP Flex
May 21, 2025 by Vance Dickason

Outboard DSP: miniDSP Flex

The fourth in a series of product reviews of outboard DSP hardware, this article explores the miniDSP Flex digital signal processing (DSP) unit. The Flex is a two channels in/four channels out, Sharc-based audio processor that offers a more cost-effective model than the previously featured miniDSP processors in the series, with a retail price of $570 for the TRS balanced IO model. Besides the competitive price, the review confirms how the miniDSP Flex manages to measure and impress.
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Dirac AudioIQ Now Supported by Asahi Kasei Microdevices’ Automotive DSPs
May 19, 2025 by Joao Martins

Dirac AudioIQ Now Supported by Asahi Kasei Microdevices’ Automotive DSPs

Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM) and Swedish digital audio processing pioneer Dirac have announced a partnership to integrate Dirac’s suite of software-defined smart acoustics solutions, AudioIQ, into AKM’s line of automotive audio digital signal processors (DSPs), including the flagship AK7709. The partnership provides OEMs and Tier 1 partners with a scalable suite of advanced algorithms as an embedded turnkey solution, significantly reducing tuning time while enhancing sound quality within vehicle interiors.
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Dirac and MediaTek Partner to Advance In-Car Audio Experiences Through Integrated Automotive SoCs
April 28, 2025 by Joao Martins

Dirac and MediaTek Partner to Advance In-Car Audio Experiences Through Integrated Automotive SoCs

Dirac and MediaTek announced a strategic collaboration to enhance in-car audio performance through the integration of Dirac's digital audio software into MediaTek's automotive-grade systems-on-chips (SoCs). Yes, software-defined vehicles benefit from a tighter integration at the chipset level, and the Swedish digital audio processing pioneer is determined to explore the possibilities with MediaTek's groundbreaking Dimensity Auto Cockpit chipsets.
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GPU Audio Releases SDK and Opens Access to GPU Processing to All
March 20, 2025 by Joao Martins

GPU Audio Releases SDK and Opens Access to GPU Processing to All

GPU Audio released their long-awaited SDK, now available for free - offering developers and programmers the opportunity to unlock GPU acceleration for audio projects, productions, and software development needs. The use of these development tools allows implementing software ideas with access to the immense power of GPU processing, and build the next generation of audio experiences independently of the application verticals.
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Outboard DSP: An Introduction
February 26, 2025 by Vance Dickason

Outboard DSP: An Introduction

In this article, Vance Dickason explores the use of digital signal processing, and specifically Outboard DSP, an increasingly viable solution to create a complete active crossover design, contained in a programmable unit that can be delivered with multiple presets for different usage scenarios or even configured by the user, according to the system in place. This inspired Vance Dickason to begin a series of product reviews of multiple outboard DSP processors, and this article is a preamble for the project.
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Shure Introduces MV7i Smart Microphone and Dual Channel Interface
January 7, 2025 by Joao Martins

Shure Introduces MV7i Smart Microphone and Dual Channel Interface

Shure introduced its new MV7i Smart Microphone and Interface at CES 2025. The MV7i is the first-of-its-kind microphone to serve as a dual-channel audio interface, allowing for two channels of recording and simplify the way creators record audio. The MV7i also features onboard DSP with auto level mode, real-time denoiser, a digital plosive filter and three adjustable reverb types, apart from MOTIV Mix desktop and MOTIV mobile app integration.
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Alango Unveils Sound Processing Module for Qualcomm S7 SoC
November 4, 2024 by Joao Martins

Alango Unveils Sound Processing Module for Qualcomm S7 SoC

Alango Technologies announced a new digital sound processing module for Qualcomm's Bluetooth SoCs, including the latest S7 Gen1 Sound platform that features five times the compute power, three times the DSP processing power, and almost 100 times on-device AI processing power compared to previous solutions. According to Alango, this first to market platform offers a pre-integrated, ready-to-use modular solution for the latest generation of hearables and advanced audio designs.
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Mathias Johansson Appointed as Vice President of Digital Signal Processing and Applied Intelligence Lab by Harman International
September 10, 2024 by Joao Martins

Mathias Johansson Appointed as Vice President of Digital Signal Processing and Applied Intelligence Lab by Harman International

Dirac’s Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Dr. Mathias Johansson, has announced his departure from the company in a LinkedIn post, where he also reveals he will transition to Harman International, having accepted a position as Vice President Digital Signal Processing and Applied Intelligence Lab. The surprising announcement was confirmed short after by Armin Prommersberger, Chief Technology Officer, Harman International.
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Dirac Live Room Correction Technology Now Available on a Soundbar
September 4, 2024 by Joao Martins

Dirac Live Room Correction Technology Now Available on a Soundbar

Dirac announced that its Dirac Live Room Correction technology is now available on a soundbar through a collaboration with Klipsch. The all-new Klipsch Flexus Core 300 soundbar is the first to offer Dirac's room correction technology, until now available mainly in high-end AVRs and integrated amplifiers. This soundbar market debut reinforces Dirac's position in the home audio market – where room correction is being adopted across all product categories, price points, and listening applications.
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