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Patent Review: Loudspeaker for Eliminating a Frequency Response Dip
December 3, 2020 by James Croft

Patent Review: Loudspeaker for Eliminating a Frequency Response Dip

Every month on his Voice Coil's Acoustic Patents column, James Croft (Croft Acoustical) discusses different loudspeaker patents and inventions that are relevant to the audio industry. In the January 2015 edition. Croft reviewed a “Loudspeaker for Eliminating a Frequency Response Dip” patent, granted in November 12, 2014 to Harman International Industries, describing “a speaker system that includes a speaker enclosure having a front end, a rear end, and a first transducer. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, January 2015.
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Alango Technologies Introduces VoiceDefender Advanced 4-Mic Voice Processing Technology
December 2, 2020 by Joao Martins

Alango Technologies Introduces VoiceDefender Advanced 4-Mic Voice Processing Technology

Alango VoiceDefender is a new advanced voice enhancement signal processing solution, ready to be used by developers and manufacturers in new on-ear and over-ear headphone designs without the need of an ugly boom mic. VoiceDefender enables noise-free voice communication for on-ear/over ear headphones virtually eliminating dominant noise sources and highlighting voice and speech signals, effectively taking augmented audio to a whole new level.
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Ideas For Adding 3D and Spatial Audio Technology on New Cutting-Edge Products
November 18, 2020 by Special Content

Ideas For Adding 3D and Spatial Audio Technology on New Cutting-Edge Products

CEVA and VisiSonics are promoting a joint webinar to promote 3D audio technology and emerging applications for immersive listening experiences. 3D Audio for Everyone is the motivation behind this session, targeted directly at audio system engineers, product managers and developers looking to add 3D Audio capabilities to Hearables, Smart Home, Mobile, and Automotive products. Getting spatial audio to work across all platforms is the next exciting frontier in audio. November 23, 2020 at 08:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM EST.
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STMicroelectronics and DSP Concepts Deliver All-In-One Amazon-Qualified Far-Field Voice Reference Design
November 18, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

STMicroelectronics and DSP Concepts Deliver All-In-One Amazon-Qualified Far-Field Voice Reference Design

STMicroelectronics has released an Amazon-qualified reference design package for smart connected devices leveraging Amazon AVS voice integration, which can be used to create Alexa Built-in products using simple microcontrollers (MCUs). The new reference design eases development of natural-language understanding and voice-based user interaction for smart-home devices and smart appliances, featuring an improved audio front end created with DSP Concepts for far-field audio detection.
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Keysight Technologies Infiniium EXR-Series Oscilloscopes Offer Advanced Automated Measurement Technology
November 16, 2020 by Cristina Costa

Keysight Technologies Infiniium EXR-Series Oscilloscopes Offer Advanced Automated Measurement Technology

Keysight Technologies announced the new Infiniium 8-channel oscilloscope technology. Keysight's Infiniium EXR-Series Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes include eight models ranging from 500 MHz to 2.5 GHz and either 4 or 8 channels with wide-ranging upgradeability. The EXR-Series' waveform update rate is >200,000 waveforms/sec., allowing it to quickly build eye-diagrams capturing 5.7 Million UIs. Powerful and intuitive, the new oscilloscope series reduces test bench and workflow complexity.
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ArkX Labs EveryWord Far-Field Reference Design Kit Receives Amazon AVS Qualification
November 13, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

ArkX Labs EveryWord Far-Field Reference Design Kit Receives Amazon AVS Qualification

ArkX Laboratories, a joint venture between hardware design and development firm Surfaceink and consumer electronics manufacturing company Ark USA, announced its EveryWord Ultra Far-Field Reference Design Kit has been qualified by Amazon AVS. The advanced far-field development kit features Cirrus Logic SoundClear Technology and NXP i.MX 8 host processor technology and is a powerful solution for manufacturers dealing with noisy environments, different mic array geometry challenges, and the need to support 3 or 5 channels for surround use cases.
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Qualcomm Announces QCC5141 Occluded Earbud Reference Design Platform to Simplify True Wireless Development
November 11, 2020 by Joao Martins

Qualcomm Announces QCC5141 Occluded Earbud Reference Design Platform to Simplify True Wireless Development

Truly wireless earbuds are growing rapidly in popularity as consumers discover everything that the Apple AirPods and Apple AirPods Pro are capable of and experiment other products, demanding similarly rich functionalities from their devices. To allow manufacturers to stay ahead of the curve by bringing innovative new features to market quickly with Bluetooth 5.2, Qualcomm made available its QCC5141 Occluded Earbud Reference Design with Qualcomm TrueWireless Mirroring and Qualcomm Hybrid ANC.
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STMicroelectronics Unveils World’s Fastest 50W Qi Wireless Charging IC
November 5, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

STMicroelectronics Unveils World’s Fastest 50W Qi Wireless Charging IC

STMicroelectronics has introduced STWLC88, the world’s fastest Qi wireless charging integrated circuit. Delivering as much as 50W of power, the new device enables consumers to charge smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other personal electronic devices without cables as safely and nearly as quickly and efficiently as they could by plugging them in. ST says its state-of-the-art 50W wireless-power IC charges smartphones two times faster than the previous-generation device.
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ESS Technology Announces Its Highest Performance Audio ADC Series
November 2, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

ESS Technology Announces Its Highest Performance Audio ADC Series

ESS Technology announced a completely new series of SABRE PRO and SABRE Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC) with an Ultra Low Noise Floor Bandwidth of 200kHz. According to the Californian company, the noise floor bandwidth on the new devices is up to 10 times wider than the competition, enabling higher resolution at higher sample rates. The two new SABRE PRO, and two new SABRE ADC devices set a new benchmark for audio performance with unmatched specifications and the highest sample rate available in the market.
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STMicroelectronics Establishes World’s First “Lab-in-Fab” to Advance Adoption of Piezoelectric MEMS in Singapore
November 2, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

STMicroelectronics Establishes World’s First “Lab-in-Fab” to Advance Adoption of Piezoelectric MEMS in Singapore

STMicroelectronics, a leading manufacturer of Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, announced a collaboration with A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute in Singapore, and ULVAC, a leading Japanese manufacturing-tool vendor, to jointly setup and operate an 8-inch (200mm) R&D line focused on Piezo MEMS technology within ST’s existing manufacturing facility in Singapore. The concept aims to advance the adoption of piezoelectric MEMS in new applications including augmented reality.
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