Soundskrit Announces SKR0600 Next-Generation Directional MEMS Microphone With Improved SNR

After the success of the SKR0400, now implemented in a breadth of consumer products, Soundskrit announced its next-generation product: the SKR0600 MEMS microphone. With an improved 67.5dBA SNR, the new directional microphones provide pro-audio quality in smaller footprint. In its standard configuration, the SKR0600 microphone exhibits a dipole polar pattern from 20Hz to 20kHz, and can be converted into any cardioid-based polar pattern with the simple addition of an acoustic mesh.

Opal Camera announced Tadpole, a compact and light webcam built exclusively for laptops and tablets, with DSLR image quality and featuring VisiMic audio capture. The webcam intends to solve all the pains that users experience with standard built-in webcams, making the experience seamless and automatic. Apart from the superior image quality, the Tadpole is the first product in the market to feature directional MEMS microphones from Canadian startup Soundskrit, with its unique background noise cancellation features.

Soundskrit, the Canadian company determined to evolve MEMS microphones for consumer electronics, announced the availability of its second product, the SKR0410, touted as the world’s first digital directional MEMS microphone. The SKR0410 brings the latest innovations in MEMS and acoustic transducer design to the digital domain to enable directional audio capture in consumer devices of all form factors.

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Soundskrit is the company behind the world's smallest directional microphone. Hailing from Montreal, Canada, the startup has cracked the code on eliminating unwanted noise at the hardware level – a never-before-seen feat for consumer product integrations. The Soundskrit SKR0400 directional MEMS microphone, combined with proprietary software is able to isolate a person's voice while eliminating any other sounds and noise surrounding it.

Soundskrit has developed a high-performance MEMS microphone that is able to replace traditional microphone arrays with a superior solution. First previewed at CES 2018 to much fanfare, Soundskrit's high-performance directional microphones technology combines hardware and software. The company now announced the availability of its first product, the SKR0400, the world’s first directional MEMS microphone built for the needs of current and future consumer electronics product designs.

The Audio Product Education Institute (APEI), an Audio Engineering Society initiative, is promoting a webinar exploring application and optimization of microphone beamforming techniques, and the latest optimizations for voice recognition platforms. The knowledge-sharing online session features presentations from DSP Concepts, Soundskrit, and Fluent.ai, with presentation by Dave Lindberg from DB Enterprises in Hong Kong.