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Synaptics Accelerates Low Power Edge AI Audio Product Development with Edge Impulse Partnership
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Synaptics Accelerates Low Power Edge AI Audio Product Development with Edge Impulse Partnership

Synaptics announced a partnership with Edge Impulse, the company leading machine learning development efforts on edge devices. The partnership combines Synaptics' latest Katana Ultra Low-Power Edge AI Platform with the Edge Impulse software development platform used by thousands of embedded developers to create, train and deploy custom models for a wide range of AI applications. The combined solutions will make developing machine learning models for low-power connected devices even easier.
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Novatek Announces Turnkey SoC Solution With Support for DTS Play-Fi
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Novatek Announces Turnkey SoC Solution With Support for DTS Play-Fi

DTS, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Xperi Holding Corporation, announced that Novatek Microelectronics, a major chip supplier for TVs, will be supporting DTS Play-Fi on its line of SoCs targeting the TV market. This turnkey solution from Novatek will enable manufacturers to build TVs that seamlessly connect to other DTS Play-Fi compatible products, including speakers and amplifiers.
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Resonado Labs Unveils Concept Marine Sound System in Partnership with Lippert
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Resonado Labs Unveils Concept Marine Sound System in Partnership with Lippert

Resonado Labs unveiled a concept marine sound system at IBEX 2021, North-America's largest trade-show for the marine industry. Resonado Labs continues to design and provide proprietary audio technology to brands and manufacturers, based on its flagship Flat Core Speaker (FCS) technology. The new system was designed by Resonado in collaboration with Lippert’s Marine Group as the companies plan to partner on more marine projects in 2022.
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Vesper Completes $16M Financing to Accelerate Growth
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Vesper Completes $16M Financing to Accelerate Growth

Vesper, the pioneer in piezoelectric MEMS microphones and sensors that is now empowering edge-AI applications in consumer devices, closed a $18M financing round led by Accomplice. Vesper also received investments from Applied Materials Ventures, Sands Capital, Bose, Amazon Alexa Fund, Gopher Asset Management, ITIC, World Peace Group, Unitrontech, and MegaChips. The round brings Vesper's total funding to date to $73M.
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Audeze Expands R&D and Global Distribution Network With New Taiwan Subsidiary
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Audeze Expands R&D and Global Distribution Network With New Taiwan Subsidiary

Audeze announced the opening of their new Taiwan subsidiary, Audeze Taiwan. Located in the heart of Taiwan, Taipei city, the new office will focus as an R&D center for technical innovations, while increasing product distribution efficiency and customer experience for Audeze’s Taiwan-based users and dealers. Additionally, Audeze Taiwan will also serve as a hub for Audeze’s distribution of other premium audio manufacturers, including Burson Audio and Periodic Audio.
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Tektronix Global Engineer Survey 2021 Results Announced
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Tektronix Global Engineer Survey 2021 Results Announced

Engineers want a long lifetime from their test and measurement instruments, according to a global survey of nearly 1,300 professionals, conducted by Tektronix between April and May 2021. The survey also finds engineers want to be able to cope with rapid advancements in technology, and want more technical support from test and measurement vendors.
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T2 Software Qualifies First Bluetooth LE Audio Host Stack
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T2 Software Qualifies First Bluetooth LE Audio Host Stack

T2 Software announced the Bluetooth SIG qualification and listing of their Bluetooth LE Audio Host Stack. With OEM's and semiconductor companies all busy building LE Audio solutions, T2 Software was the first company to fully qualify all of the adopted profiles and services supporting Bluetooth LE Audio. The team has been working closely with the Bluetooth SIG over a period of three years.
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APEI Discusses Mitigation Strategies for Component Shortages and Supply Disruptions
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APEI Discusses Mitigation Strategies for Component Shortages and Supply Disruptions

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI) presents a new webinar in its Supply Chain & Sourcing education pillar, addressing current component shortages, logistics challenges and manufacturing and supply disruptions. David Lindberg (DB Enterprises) and Mike Klasco (Menlo Scientific) invited senior executives from Seltech International and Emporium Partners - two companies with extensive experience in supply chain services - to outline this dynamic global environment, and define mitigation strategies for the audio industry.
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Knowles Launches Raspberry Pi Development Kit to Enable Voice Integration for New Applications and Industries
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Knowles Launches Raspberry Pi Development Kit to Enable Voice Integration for New Applications and Industries

Knowles announced the availability of the Knowles AISonic IA8201 Raspberry Pi Development Kit to bring voice, audio edge processing, and machine learning (ML) listening capabilities to devices and systems in a range of new industries. The new development kit bundles all of the hardware, add-on open software and algorithms required to test, prototype, and debug voice and audio functionality and integration in new applications for smart home, consumer technology, industrial, and beyond.
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ReadSpeaker Powers Custom Voices for Spotify Car Thing Smart Player
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ReadSpeaker Powers Custom Voices for Spotify Car Thing Smart Player

ReadSpeaker, a voice technology company from Sweden, announced that Spotify uses its neural text-to-speech (TTS) technology to deliver custom voices for Spotify’s newest exploration in the US - a limited release of Car Thing, a smart player for the car. ReadSpeaker’s technology currently powers the custom voice available in Car Thing, the bold, first hardware adventure from the Swedish streaming company.
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