SoundHound Updates App to Include Apple Music Integration

SoundHound, a pioneering company in sound recognition and search technologies, updated its music app, SoundHound, to include integration with Apple Music and Beats1 Radio. SoundHound has more than 265 million global users and the new features will go live in over 100 countries where Apple Music launched.

Knowles completed the acquisition of Audience, following an updated offer for a mix of cash and shares of Knowles common stock. The acquisition and merger of the two companies was already approved by Korean regulators and should enable the world leader in MEMS devices and transducers for mobile devices to access Audience’s advanced voice and audio processing technologies.

Conexant’s new I2S audio Codec and AudioSmart software offers noise cancellation and full-duplex acoustic echo cancellation for tablets, allowing better voice quality even in noisy environments. Conexant also introduced a Linux software solution for voice control and communication in smart home products and unveiled its new Smart Voice Pickup (SVP) technology for headsets, based on its proprietary SSP noise suppression algorithm.