Audience, the company specialized in voice processing is entering a whole new domain with its Motion Q technology. As the name indicates, Audience will now provide motion-related hardware like the MQ100 processor to monitor and process signals generated by sensors such as accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope and pressure sensors to name the well-known ones. (more…)
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[CES 2014] With the arrival of devices like the Moto X, a new class of phones that are always keeping an ear out for their master’s next voice command was born. We are certain that this trend will continue, but it will amplify as devices get smarter to the point of anticipating the needs of their owners. We’re not quite there yet, but along the way, it is crucial to have voice processors that are able to provide a clear signal for both humans and machines to understand, while consuming as little power as possible when they continuously listen to their surroundings. This is a feat that very few companies can deliver, but that’s exactly what the Audience es700 Series architecture was designed to do. (more…)
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Just as the Intel Developer Conference (IDF) starts, Audience launches a powerful new audio processor designed for PCs: the earSmart 320. PC have been around forever, but while the audio playback has been worked on quite a bit by companies like Dolby and others, the audio recording capabilities of our computers have not progressed as quickly. Audience plans to change that, and the earSmart 320 is designed to bring all the audio know-how acquired from the smartphone world to the PC. (more…)
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You may not have heard of Audience, but its sound processor may be powering your smartphone right now. With design-wins like the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S3, RAZRi and other high-profile smartphones, Audience makes your voice sound better for those who listen to you on the phone. The company builds Voice Processors that help filter out background noise, even in relatively noisy places like busy restaurants and bars. (more…)
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Even if you haven’t heard of Audience, there’s a very good chance you (or a close friend or family member) have used a product with one of its audio processing chips installed. The company, which prides itself in its noise-cancelling prowess, is taking to CES to launch its latest high-end processor, dubbed the eS515. This particular chip offers a new high-performance, low-power codec subsystem and integrates a handful of impressive features along with it. First on the laundry list of improvements is support for up to three mics on a singular device; while we’ve seen the three-mic setup on a limited scale in the past (Qualcomm has done it on its development phones), Audience’s implementation may be the first to arrive on commercially available phones. Since it’s currently sampling to manufacturers, we may not have to wait terribly long.
In addition to the three-mic support, the eS515 also throws in a few other handy tools, such as de-reverb, which is meant to significantly reduce the voice echo users normally experience on speakerphones and in large rooms; a selective audio capture feature called Audio Zoom, which lets you switch back and forth between a bi-directional recording mode and single-direction narrator mode; new hardware-accelerated speech recognition algorithms that’s geared to interpret your voice more accurately; and dual-mic noise suppression when taking video. It all sounds pretty tempting, and we’re eager to see how well Audience holds up on its claims — we’re still waiting to hear which upcoming devices will have the chip installed, but our guess is that it’ll show up on a handful of premium smartphones in the coming year. We’ve got the press release below for your dissection.
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For the most part we’re sure that many aren’t too concerned about every single component that goes into their iPhone, after all its usually the exterior design of the device and hardware specs such as processor speed, RAM and camera megapixels that help sell the phone, wouldn’t you agree? Either way for those interested about the innards of their iPhone device, it featured a noise suppression chip that was introduced as a separate component in the iPhone 4, and an integrated one on the A5 chip in the iPhone 4S. This chip was built by a company called Audience and according to recent reports, it looks like Apple might be passing on Audience’s chip for the next-gen iPhone.
According to the company’s CEO, Peter Santos, “Audience now believes that it is unlikely that the OEM will enable Audience’s processor IP in its next generation mobile phone. Audience is not aware of any intended changes by this OEM to its use of Audience’s processors or processor IP in prior generations of the OEM’s mobile phones.” This has led to some speculating that Apple could have built their own chip instead. Will it handle as well as Audience’s? We guess we will have to wait for the folks at iFixit to tear down the next-gen iPhone to see if these rumors pan out.
[Image credit – iFixit]
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Audience, the company responsible for developing the EarSmart technology which power’s Siri, has announced that Apple is “unlikely” to use the system in the next-generation iPhone. More »
There was a time when Audience’s contribution to the iPhone’s call clarity was not only praised, but actively hunted down. But now it looks like the party is over — at least according to the chip maker itself. Citing events “in the normal course of business” the firm believes that its technology won’t be making it into Apple’s next handset — unsurprisingly a big blow for its shareholders. While it remains unconfirmed, Audience suggested in a conference call that Apple has built its own audio team. Something that is possible already creating a hubbub with other industry players. Though all things going well, we’ll only have to wait a week until the new iPhone hits the surgeon’s bench anyway.
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Audience noise-cancelling said not to feature in next iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple faces litigation claiming that it’s using patented technology all the time, often from small patent holding companies with dollar signs in their eyes. Noise Free Wireless has just filed a patent lawsuit against Apple whose allegations are considerably, well, louder. The firm maintains that it had been pitching its patented noise cancellation to Apple in periodic meetings between 2007 and 2010, only to watch as 1 Infinite Loop used Audience’s technology for the iPhone 4 instead — and supposedly handed some of Noise Free’s work to a competitor. An Apple patent filed the same year borrows some of that work, Noise Free insists, in addition to the iPhone in question. Neither side is talking about the details to outlets like Macworld, although we’d be cautious about accepting either company’s position at face value. However much Apple may protest its innocence regardless of circumstances, Noise Free certainly has a vested interest in retribution after losing out on such a big contract.
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Noise Free Wireless alleges Apple is tone deaf over sound reduction patent, files lawsuit to match originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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