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ISE 2023 Barcelona Impressions: The Unstoppable Monster Trade Show?
by Joao Martins

ISE 2023 Barcelona Impressions: The Unstoppable Monster Trade Show?

ISE 2023 Barcelona first impressions report. Ham and Coke. Cold and Sunny. Impressions from Barcelona and reflecting on how the audio industry is being squeezed in Monster Trade-Shows. Phenomenal, Great, Extremely Successful! But what's holding these companies together? Is this model sustainable? This article was published originally in The Audio Voice, February 9, 2023.
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Hearables in 2023: Comfort Must Come First
by Andrew Bellavia

Hearables in 2023: Comfort Must Come First

Predicting what trends we’ll see in hearables in 2023 seems like a fool’s errand. With the release of the OTC hearing aid rule in the United States, these are predicated on devices that can be comfortably worn for long stretches of the day in a form factor that people are willing to wear in social settings. Without that foundation, these interesting and useful applications will not achieve mass-adoption. Anticipating CES 2023, Andrew Bellavia looks for the Next Big Thing in Hearables and the Multiple Sides of Comfort.
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Simplify Engineering - Building a Collaboration Platform for System Engineers That Specialize in R&D and Manufacturing
by Joshua Levy

Simplify Engineering - Building a Collaboration Platform for System Engineers That Specialize in R&D and Manufacturing

I'm a hardware engineer with over ten years of experience, based in Southern California. I've worked on products like the Amazon Alexa and Meta Oculus, and I have grown frustrated with the current processes and inefficiencies of the consumer electronics industry. This is why I created The Lyceum, an online collaborative software that facilitates hardware system engineering research & development and manufacturing by automating data-intensive tasks, keeping a track record of historical technical data, and offering tools for online group work.
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Bringing Directionality to Consumer Products
by Frederic Lepoutre

Bringing Directionality to Consumer Products

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.
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Beyond the Smartwatch: Three Wearable Technology Trends to Watch
by Tess Skyrme

Beyond the Smartwatch: Three Wearable Technology Trends to Watch

As the smartwatch market matures, the capabilities of alternative wearables continue to expand. In the coming years, alternative form factors could begin tempting consumers away. Not only could these devices provide more value – they also have the potential to access new biometrics. The wearable technology industry is being driven by the demand for more data – but is faced with hitting maturity during an era of economic contraction. This article summarizes what life could look like beyond the smartwatch boom, with three trends to watch.
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Voice Control for Low Power Microcontrollers
by Ido Gus

Voice Control for Low Power Microcontrollers

Ido Gus, Deep Learning Senior Team Leader at CEVA’s Sensor and Audio Business Unit, writes about voice control deployment on low power and resource constrained microcontroller-units (MCUs). The article discusses what to consider for the development of products using voice as a primary human interface, and how speech recognition models using AI technology can support a wide variety of use cases and languages, without compromising on power requirements.
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Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) - An Audio Perspective
by Andrew Starks

Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) - An Audio Perspective

From AES67 to Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX). With the adoption of AES67 comes the need for networked professional AV standards. In this article, Andrew Starks, AIMS Marketing Workgroup Chair and Director of Product Management at Macnica, offers an audio perspective about the Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) Initiative and specifications, discussing the specific implications of dealing with asynchronous sources.
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Nuvoton ICs with Integrated Klippel Controlled Sound - New Possibilities for Speaker Design
by Mike Klasco

Nuvoton ICs with Integrated Klippel Controlled Sound - New Possibilities for Speaker Design

What more could speaker system designers want? How about not just to protect the speaker from overload, but enable the speaker to play louder with reduced bass distortion? Mike Klasco writes about his experience working with Nuvoton smart amps with integrated Klippel Controlled Sound (KCS) technology. Now in mass production and offering new possibilities for speaker design. First product examples are now available in the market.
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Dr. Kurt Müller Anniversary! 100 Years of Loudspeaker Innovation
by Mike Klasco

Dr. Kurt Müller Anniversary! 100 Years of Loudspeaker Innovation

Mike Klasco writes about Dr. Kurt Müller's 100-Year Anniversary and revisits the milestones of this important supplier of cones, suspensions, dust caps and surrounds company. Perhaps the oldest surviving cone factory in the world and certainly one of the most advanced, DKM was originally founded in 1922, in Berlin, and in 1970, extended its product range with the acquisition of Pulsonic Ultrasonics Limited (now known as Kurt Mueller UK Ltd) in the United Kingdom. Happy Birthday!
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A Computer in Every Ear. The Rise of Headphone 3.0
by Joao Martins

A Computer in Every Ear. The Rise of Headphone 3.0

Enter Sonical Headphone 3.0. A fully integrated approach for the product development of headphones and earbuds that allows consumers to load their own apps. audioXpress talked to Gary Spittle, the CEO and founder of Sonical, a young company that developed a chip and a real-time operating system for headphones and hearables. "Hearables should not be defined by the functions of a chip or the Bluetooth profiles, there is a lot more that product makers want to do," says Gary Spittle, the CEO and founder of Sonical.
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