Jabra Rebrands Lively as JabraEnhance.com Online Destination for Better Hearing

GN has expanded its Jabra Enhance hearing offering with integration and rebrand of Lively, acquired in 2021. The now rebranded JabraEnhance.com online hearing care platform is intended to enable US consumers to explore, purchase and receive hearing care from home. Joining the Jabra Enhance hearing aid range are also three Jabra Enhance Select products, available exclusively at JabraEnhance.com.

Swedish startup Elk, developers of the claimed "world’s lowest latency audio OS," announced the commercial availability of its Elk LIVE real time remote collaboration music service (formerly Aloha by Elk). The system, which promises to solve the constraints still restricting live-collaboration between musicians over the Internet, is available to pre-order now, with the hardware interface scheduled to start shipping in early Q4 2021.

For those product categories that require simple voice interfaces completely implemented on-device, or for developers at the testing stages of a new voice UI, there is now a fast, free and flexible solution. Sensory, the Silicon Valley company pioneering AI at the edge and the de facto standard for enabling a voice UI on apps and devices, unveiled VoiceHub, a new online portal that enables developers to quickly create wake word models and voice control command sets for prototyping and proof-of-concept purposes.

Musicanote, a music media content startup from Seoul, South Korea, which previously developed a music search engine, has now launched an online music score annotation service. The platform for archiving musical knowledge, enables text, images, and videos to be added to music scores online. Musicanote is a member of the K-ICT Born2Global Centre, a startup ecosystem from the main Korean government agency under the Ministry of Science and ICT.

Primacoustic (a division of Radial Engineering) is now offering a comprehensive room acoustics analysis service that can be accessed through the company’s website. The new free room acoustics calculator walks the user through the process of entering the required measurements and information. Once completed, the service provides a room analysis along with suggested materials and estimated budget for the installation.