audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available

audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available
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Advertise in the Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2024!

Advertise in the Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2024!
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Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024

Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024
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The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities

The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities
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Samsung and DSP Concepts Collaborate on Voice Controlled Portable Projector and Smart Speaker
by Cristina Costa

Samsung and DSP Concepts Collaborate on Voice Controlled Portable Projector and Smart Speaker

DSP Concepts, the creator of the Audio Weaver development framework that powers sound and voice functionality for many of the world's leading consumer and automotive brands, announced that it is working with Samsung on a new concept product. Introduced at CES 2022, "The Freestyle" is a portable projector with an integrated smart speaker. DSP Concepts collaborated with Samsung to provide voice pre-processing to ensure accurate voice command recognition.
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GaN Systems and Axign Demonstrate New 500W Class-D Reference Audio Amplifier
by Joao Martins

GaN Systems and Axign Demonstrate New 500W Class-D Reference Audio Amplifier

GaN Systems, the leading GaN power semiconductor specialist and audio technology innovator Axign, debuted a new groundbreaking GaN-based 500W Class-D audio amplifier. This reference design merges best-in-class technologies, including GaN Systems’ GaN power transistors and Axign’s Class-D controller, enabling companies to create unique audio systems that are smaller, sleeker, more efficient, more powerful, and provide better audio quality than previous generations.
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Syntiant Announces Voice-Enabled Ultra-Low-Power Reference Design for TWS Earbud Applications
by Joao Martins

Syntiant Announces Voice-Enabled Ultra-Low-Power Reference Design for TWS Earbud Applications

Syntiant, the company focused on making edge AI a reality for always-on applications, announced a new reference design that will enable ODMs and OEMs to easily and quickly deploy ultra-low-power, edge AI voice processing applications in true wireless earbuds. The solution enables multi-lingual custom wake words and speech commands, supported by data training and modeling, providing a complete, end-to-end solution for edge AI processing.
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    Dirac Combines Suite of Automotive Sound Solutions in New Intelligent Audio Platform
    by Joao Martins

    Dirac Combines Suite of Automotive Sound Solutions in New Intelligent Audio Platform

    Dirac’s new Intelligent Audio Platform (IAP) is a complete solution for automotive sound in all types of car models. The modular platform, already trusted and endorsed by Volvo, Rolls Royce, NIO, BYD, or Harman, offers patented optimization and spatialization solutions, easy tuning and measurement, and an all-new way of upmixing standard stereo content to create immersive sound experiences. And Dirac IAP offers a complete software suite with a unified interface for sound design and optimization.
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    GaN Systems Updates Reference Design for Class-D Audio Amplifiers
    by Joao Martins

    GaN Systems Updates Reference Design for Class-D Audio Amplifiers

    GaN Systems, the GaN (gallium nitride) power transistor specialist, announced an updated version of its Class-D audio amplifier evaluation kit, allowing evaluation for high-efficiency audio reference designs. Evolving from the original evaluation kit introduced in 2020, GaN Systems released the GeN2 amplifier and companion switched-mode power supply reference design today, shrinking the size and increasing its capabilities for Class-D audio designs.
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    Fluent.ai and Knowles Partner to Deliver True Wireless Stereo Voice Control
    by audioXpress Staff

    Fluent.ai and Knowles Partner to Deliver True Wireless Stereo Voice Control

    Fluent.ai announced its collaboration with Knowles Corporation to deliver AI-powered voice control for True Wireless Stereo (TWS) earbuds and other hearable products, fully on-device. Running on Knowles' AISonic processors, providing a small footprint embedded technology for edge AI, the solution allows developers to implement noise robust voice commands to trigger TWS actions in any language or accent, without the need for an Internet connection or accompanying smartphone app.
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    Circulr and Mimi Hearing Technologies Partner to Deliver Sound Personalization to Smart Audio Neckphones
    by Joao Martins

    Circulr and Mimi Hearing Technologies Partner to Deliver Sound Personalization to Smart Audio Neckphones

    Mimi Hearing Technologies announced a new partnership with Circulr Sound, the Danish startup developing a new concept of personal AI audio devices called Hybrid Neckphones. Circulr Sound will bring Mimi Sound Personalization to its Smart Audio Wearables concept, allowing users to adapt the audio signal to their unique hearing ability. The implementation should enable interesting possibilities given Circulr's unique concept and awareness requirements.
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    JBL Introduces First Microphone and True Wireless Earbuds to JBL Quantum Gaming Range
    by Joao Martins

    JBL Introduces First Microphone and True Wireless Earbuds to JBL Quantum Gaming Range

    Confirming the strong market momentum in audio gaming accessories, Harman introduced new products into its Quantum range of products, including its first USB microphone, the JBL Quantum Stream. And leveraging the company's vast experience in the personal audio space, JBL also added new Quantum true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds and unveiled the JBL Quantum 910, JBL Quantum 810 and JBL Quantum 610 - three new additions to its over-ear gaming headset lineup.
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    MaxLinear WAV600 Series-2 Chipset Selected for Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 Certification Test Bed
    by Cristina Costa

    MaxLinear WAV600 Series-2 Chipset Selected for Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 Certification Test Bed

    MaxLinear, the provider of radio frequency (RF), analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits, headquartered in Carlsbad, California, announced that their WAV600 Series-2 Chipset SoCs have been selected as access point test bed devices for the Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 Release 2 certification process. The test bed uses a MaxLinear WAV615 and two MaxLinear WAV665 Wi-Fi Transceiver SoCs to enable tri-band interoperability testing at 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz, delivering on performance and increased network capacity.
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    Cambridge Audio Announces New Turntables at CES 2022
    by audioXpress Staff

    Cambridge Audio Announces New Turntables at CES 2022

    British hi-fi specialist Cambridge Audio has announced two new additions to its Alva turntable range: Alva TT V2 and Alva ST - one being a direct drive design and the other a belt-drive. Unveiled for the first time at CES 2022 in Las Vegas, the new Alva turntables build on the success of the company's previous Alva TT – launched in 2019 as the world’s first turntable with aptX HD Bluetooth built-in. The new Alva TT V2 and Alva ST turntables are scheduled to be available in Spring 2022, priced at $1,999 and $999 respectively.
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