All items tagged with Fraunhofer IDMT (12)

Sound Personalization in Audio Products Webinar, April 8

April 1, 2025 by Cristina Costa

Sound Personalization in Audio Products Webinar, April 8

For decades, volume control, treble, and bass, maybe a few EQ preset keys, have been the available options for sound adjustments. Today, personalized sound playback in audio products is becoming increasingly recognized, as is hearing compensation in personal audio products. The Audio Product Development Alliance (APDA) hosts a new live session with Jan Rennies-Hochmuth, Head of Personalized Hearing Systems, Fraunhofer IDMT, to discuss how dynamic hearing profiles enable a new level of individual sound experiences in audio products.

HEAD acoustics ACQUA Adds Listening Effort Prediction Option

November 15, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

HEAD acoustics ACQUA Adds Listening Effort Prediction Option

With LEAP (Listening Effort Prediction from Acoustic Parameters) now integrated into ACQUA 6.1.100, HEAD acoustics offers an optional tool for on-site prediction of the perceived listening effort. The software predicts the perceived listening effort of a listener when hearing an impaired speech signal without the need for an undisturbed reference signal. This makes it possible to carry out measurements more efficiently under laboratory conditions and in real-world applications.

Sennheiser Adds Personalization Options in Latest Smart Control App and Firmware Updates

May 9, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Adds Personalization Options in Latest Smart Control App and Firmware Updates

Sennheiser introduced an update to its latest Momentum true wireless earbuds and headphones and the companion Smart Control App, which adds more ways to personalize the listening experience. The app is available on iOS and Android, with additional features coming to Momentum True Wireless 3 earphones and Momentum 4 Wireless headphones via firmware updates.

AES 2022 Automotive Audio International Conference

December 7, 2022 by Roger Shively

AES 2022 Automotive Audio International Conference

Over the course of three days and two nights, June 8–10, the Audio Engineering Society’s 2022 International Automotive Audio Conference in Dearborn, MI, served as a great event for everyone in the automotive audio community to reconnect. The event also featured a full track of sessions promoted by the AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI). This report, written by Roger Shively, the AES Conference Chair, reviews the most important presentations topics discussed and the exciting demonstrations by companies such as Dolby, Fraunhofer, Dirac, Tymphany, and DSP Concepts, among many others.

Automotive Audio: Audio Objects as Platform Technology in Vehicles

November 16, 2022 by Christoph Sladeczek

Automotive Audio: Audio Objects as Platform Technology in Vehicles

This article describes a new workflow comprising the rendering of audio objects for the production and tuning process, as well as the implementation on resource-limited hardware, for immersive entertainment and personalized sound staging of automotive audio. Since the object-based audio is independent of the loudspeaker setup, this significantly reduces the complexity of the tuning processes for car manufacturers. This article was originally published in audioXpress, September 2022.

audioXpress September 2022 Speaker Focus Issue Now Available

August 11, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

audioXpress September 2022 Speaker Focus Issue Now Available

The September 2022 Speaker Focus issue of audioXpress discusses speaker design and testing tools and features two fascinating speaker R&D stories on the Holoplot X1 Matrix Array and Motion Feedback Desktop Subwoofers for nearfield studio application. Geoff Hill explains the latest IEC loudspeaker measurement standards, Roger Shively reports from the AES 2022 Automotive Audio conference, Christoph Sladeczek writes about Audio Objects as Platform Technology in Vehicles, and much more.

May 17, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Cadence Offers MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile Decoders for Tensilica HiFi DSPs

Fraunhofer confirmed that Cadence Design Systems is now offering decoder implementations supporting the new MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile and has joined the MPEG-H Audio System trademark program administered by Fraunhofer. Adding MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile decoding capabilities to Cadence’s industry-leading Tensilica HiFi DSP designs opens up the potential to bring interactive and immersive sound to millions of users worldwide.

Steinberg Introduces Nuendo 11 with New Tools for Dolby Atmos Mixes and AI-Powered Intelligibility Meter

December 10, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Steinberg Introduces Nuendo 11 with New Tools for Dolby Atmos Mixes and AI-Powered Intelligibility Meter

First revealed in November 2020, Steinberg announced the immediate availability of its much-anticipated premium media production software, Nuendo 11, now adding Audio Definition Model (ADM) authoring file support for Dolby Atmos mixes, Netflix Loudness Meter, plus many other features and workflow enhancements. The latest Nuendo is a more complete professional audio production tool for media content creation, including a new Intelligibility Meter, based on algorithms developed by the Fraunhofer Institute.

Fraunhofer Institute Researcher Receives Grant to Improve Personalized Hearing Systems

July 12, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Fraunhofer Institute Researcher Receives Grant to Improve Personalized Hearing Systems

Dr. Jan Rennies-Hochmuth has been awarded a grant from the “Klaus Tschira Boost Fund” for his research on personalized hearing systems for improved speech communication at the Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology Division (HSA) of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Oldenburg. Rennies-Hochmuth’s research work aims to understand better how speech is perceived in complex listening conditions and above all how information is combined across both ears.

Fraunhofer IDMT Upgrades Ilmenau Advanced Audio Research Headquarters with Powersoft

March 12, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Fraunhofer IDMT Upgrades Ilmenau Advanced Audio Research Headquarters with Powersoft

The Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) has upgraded the highly specialized audio setup at its Ilmenau headquarters, which includes a cutting edge object-based system for producing 3D sound, with the installation of Powersoft’s Ottocanali 4K4 DSP+D amplifier platforms. Fraunhofer IDMT - which focuses on applied research in the field of audiovisual media - is widely known for developing ground-breaking technologies for the digital media industry.

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