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Sonos Announces Acquisition of Snips to Expand Voice Efforts
by Joao Martins

Sonos Announces Acquisition of Snips to Expand Voice Efforts

Sonos announced the acquisition of Snips, a French company that provides embedded voice assistants and interfaces for connected devices that run locally and offline. The acquisition adds a talented group of employees and strategic IP to Sonos. Following the company's presentation at CES 2019, Snips received a Best of Innovation Awards in the Embedded Technology category. Snips will enable Sonos to design speech-enabled devices that can operate offline and to market them faster without sacrificing its own brand identity.
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Global True Wireless Earbuds Market Reaches 33 Million Units in Q3 2019
by audioXpress Staff

Global True Wireless Earbuds Market Reaches 33 Million Units in Q3 2019

The true wireless earbuds market for 2019 is expected to reach 120 million units and global tech giants’ strategies focused on voice communication will help sustain the strong growth momentum. The size of the global market for true wireless earbuds reached 33 million units (USD 4.1 billion) in Q3 2019, growing 22% QoQ, according to the findings of Counterpoint Research’s Hearables Market Tracker (Counterpoint applies the term “hearables” loosely to describe TWS products, which the company’s report actually differentiates).
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Listen Technologies Launches Navilution Wi-Fi Streaming Entertainment Solution
by audioXpress Staff

Listen Technologies Launches Navilution Wi-Fi Streaming Entertainment Solution

Listen Technologies has launched Navilution Wi-Fi the first affordable, plug-and-play, low-latency, streaming passenger entertainment solution. Navilution Wi-Fi was designed by AudioConexus for the sightseeing industry, making it easy for tour operators to deliver engaging, GPS-triggered content to visitors through their smartphones. Following the AudioConexus acquisition by Listen Technologies, the solution benefited from the integration of both company's technologies.
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xHE-AAC Adaptive Bit Rate Audio Codec Now Natively Supported on Apple, Amazon and Android Products
by audioXpress Staff

xHE-AAC Adaptive Bit Rate Audio Codec Now Natively Supported on Apple, Amazon and Android Products

A rapidly growing number of platforms and playback devices now support xHE-AAC decoding natively, which means interrupted or buffering audio and video streams are becoming a thing of the past. Consumer devices powered by the latest Android, Fire and Apple operating systems support the most efficient AAC codec with mandatory MPEG-D DRC loudness and dynamic range control metadata – delivering a seamless streaming experience on any device in any environment.
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Valens In-Vehicle Ultra-High-Speed Connectivity Chipsets Receive CES Innovation Awards Recognition
by audioXpress Staff

Valens In-Vehicle Ultra-High-Speed Connectivity Chipsets Receive CES Innovation Awards Recognition

Valens, the company behind HDBase-T connectivity, the "de facto" standard adopted in the AV industry, is now pushing the technology for automotive applications since launching its latest VA6000 HDBaseT integrated circuit, combining 1Gbps Ethernet transmission, Audio, Serial Control, and USB over unshielded single twisted pair lower cost cables. The technology was now confirmed a CES 2020 Innovation Awards Honoree.
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Audeze Partners With Embody for HRTF Personalized Headphones Plug-in
by Joao Martins

Audeze Partners With Embody for HRTF Personalized Headphones Plug-in

Headphones manufacturer Audeze has partnered with Embody, an audio lifestyle technology startup dedicated to personalization and immersive sound applications, located in San Mateo, California, with satellite offices in Tokyo and Vancouver. The collaboration between the two companies already resulted in the launch of the Reveal+ personalized spatial plugin for Audeze headphones and the corresponding Aural Map app, which allows creating personal HRTF profiles generated from images of the ear, captured with a smartphone.
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Acconeer and Imagimob Combine Radar Technology and Edge AI for Gesture Control Applications
by audioXpress Staff

Acconeer and Imagimob Combine Radar Technology and Edge AI for Gesture Control Applications

By combining Edge AI software from Imagimob, a company specializing in artificial intelligence development, with Pulsed Coherent Radar technology from Acconeer, the radar sensor specialists, the two Swedish companies have created an innovative platform for gesture control that is perfect for consumer electronics products. Scheduled to be demonstrated at CES 2020 (January 7-10) in Las Vegas, the solution will be implemented for application with wireless headphones, trained to recognize five hand gestures with high accuracy and close to zero latency.
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CTA Confirms First CES 2020 Innovation Awards Announcements
by Joao Martins

CTA Confirms First CES 2020 Innovation Awards Announcements

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) officially kicked off CES season with traditional CES Unveiled events in New York, Paris and Amsterdam. Attendees to these invitation-only celebrations heard exclusive CES announcements and experienced emerging tech trends that will dominate the CES 2020 show floor Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. More importantly, these events kicked off the annual CES 2020 Innovation Awards announcements, which will be expanded and confirmed until the Las Vegas show opens in January.
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Wider Market Perspectives and Deeper Connections at ISE 2020
by Nora Wong

Wider Market Perspectives and Deeper Connections at ISE 2020

ISE 2020 is set to be the most compelling Integrated Systems Europe show ever. Taking place at the RAI Amsterdam on 11-14 February 2020, ISE is the world’s leading event for the professional systems integration channel. Launched in 2004, ISE is now the world’s largest tradeshow for the professional AV and electronic systems industry. ISE 2020 is expected to draw nearly 1,400 exhibitors and more than 85,000 registered attendees to its Amsterdam RAI location.
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Meridian Audio Launches DSP750 In-Wall Digital Active Architectural Loudspeaker
by audioXpress Staff

Meridian Audio Launches DSP750 In-Wall Digital Active Architectural Loudspeaker

Meridian Audio launched its latest loudspeaker from the Architectural range, the DSP750 In-Wall Digital Active Loudspeaker. As the highest performing architectural loudspeaker from the British brand, the DSP750 combines a host of exclusive Meridian technologies on-board, using five new, high-performance drivers matched to a Class-M DSP engine with Enhanced Bass Alignment (EBA) and "Centre Elevation" technology to create an immersive sound experience that appears to come from the center of the screen.
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