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Qualcomm Introduces Two Next Generation Sound Platforms – S3 gen 3 and S5 gen 3.

Enterprise, Gaming, Home, Technology, Wearable Devices / By Peter Cooney / April 2, 2024 / Active Room Speaker, Audio Eyewear, Augmented Reality Headset, Enterprise Headset, Enterprise Speaker, Gaming Headset, Mixed Reality Headset, Portable Speaker, PSAP, Qualcomm, Radio, Smart Speaker, soundbar, Tensilica, Tensilican, True Wireless Stereo Earbuds, Virtual Reality Headset, Vivo, Wireless Ear Cup, Wireless Fully Enclosed, Wireless Mono Headset, Wireless Tethered Earbuds

Qualcomm has announced upgrades to some of its sound platform chips, with the S3 gen 3 and S5 gen 3. Here we look at the major changes made. The S3 is aimed at mid-tier audio devices. Looking at the specs for gen 2 and gen 3 the major upgrades on the previous generation include: The S3 also gives customers access to 3rd party solutions from the Qualcomm Voice …

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JBL’s New Party Speakers

Home, Product / By Lachlan Cooney / February 9, 2024 / Blaupunkt, Harman, JBL, Portable Speaker, Samsung, Sony

JBL, a global leader in the portable speaker industry, announced its new party speakers at CES last month, the PartyBox Club 120 and the PartyBox Stage 320. The PartyBox Club 120 features Bluetooth 5.3 with LE audio, IPX4 water resistance, and multi-speaker connection thanks to Auracast. It also features up to 12 hours of battery life, …

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Golfers Tee Up With Speakers

Home, Product / By Peter Cooney / January 26, 2024 / Bushnell, Portable Speaker

The news snippet highlights the increasing popularity of speakers on the golf course and provides some useful information for golfers who are interested in purchasing a speaker for the course. What makes this article particularly interesting is the GPS functionality of the speaker models considered, which sets them apart from other speakers on the market. …

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CES 2024 Round Up – Sustainability, Smart Homes, AI for Voice, Audio Platforms and Ambient IoT

Home, Product, Technology, Wearable Devices / By Peter Cooney / January 19, 2024 / Airoha, Amazon, Ambient Photonics, Bragi, Breggz, Exeger, Google, Harman, Knowles, LG, Ossia, Panasonic, Portable Speaker, Smart Home Hub and Gateway, Smart Speaker, Smart TV, Sony, soundbar, True Wireless Stereo Earbuds, Wireless Ear Cup, Wireless Fully Enclosed

Getting back to normal? Are we “getting back to normal”, CES 2024 suggest so. This was my 8th year attending in my current role and anecdotally it felt as busy as it ever was pre-COVID. The CEA stated that there were 135,000+ attendees, which is close to the usual 150,000+. As always there was a wide range of …

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Bang & Olufsen Unveils Its New Beolab 8 Wireless Speaker

Home, Product / By Peter Cooney / September 14, 2023 / Active Room Speaker, B&O, Beolab, DTS, Portable Speaker, Razer, Sonos, THX

Beolab 8—the attractive new room speaker offering from Bang & Olufsen—is now being welcomed to homes. The news comes as Sonos also welcomes a predecessor to its battery-powered lineup, the Sonos Move 2. The Beolab 8 comes with a few standout features, for example beam-width control which adapts to listening profiles. Also UWB (ultra-wide band) …

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Solar power to improve speaker performance

Home, Product / By Joe Murray / September 13, 2023 / Portable Speaker, Smart Speaker, Urbanista

Urbanista has continued its venture into sustainable consumer devices by releasing a new light-powered speaker made from recycled materials. The speaker, which retails for $149, is fully waterproof and offers a USB-C charging port if the solar charge is not fast enough. While at SAR we don’t expect solar to be the primary source of …

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RadioGPT

Enterprise, Home, Technology, Wearable Devices / By Joe Murray / March 27, 2023 / Active Room Speaker, Bone Conduction Headphone, Futuri, Portable Speaker, Professional Microphone, RadioGPT, Smart Speaker, True Wireless Stereo Earbuds, USB Microphone, Wired Headphones Packaged, Wired Headphones Retail, Wireless Ear Cup, Wireless Fully Enclosed, Wireless Mono Headset, Wireless Tethered Earbud

Futuri, a US company based in Cleveland, Ohio, has developed an AI-driven radio technology called RadioGPT that can broadcast voice, music, local news stories, and even create social media posts. The company claims that all content created by RadioGPT can be localized to the area where it is broadcasted. RadioGPT can use AI-generated voices to host shows, create scripts, and even …

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Sonos releases new line of speakers

Enterprise, Home, Product / By Peter Cooney / March 2, 2023 / Active Room Speaker, Enterprise Speaker, Portable Speaker, Smart Speaker, Sonos, USB Speakerphone

Sonos has announced its new line of speakers. The Sonos Era 300 and 100 are coming in March. One huge update from previous Sonos speakers is that you can now line-in, and use Bluetooth. The Sonos non-portable range has previously only worked through Wi-Fi. The announcement that the Sonos sound will be enabled to other …

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Infineon fosters the adoption of its innovative multilevel Class D audio amplifier technology through an ecosystem of associated partners

Home, Technology / By Peter Cooney / January 30, 2023 / Active Room Speaker, Eleven Engineering, Infineon, MERUS, Portable Speaker, Smart Speaker

Infineon has announced it is building an ecosystem of partners to help drive its MERUS™ class D amplifier into new markets. This particular announcement focuses on a partnership with Eleven Engineering and the use of class D amplifiers in battery-powered speakers. With the touted 1/10 idle power possible with MERUS multilevel switching technology there are …

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Sonos adds secure voice control

Home, Technology / By Joe Murray / May 13, 2022 / Active Room Speaker, Portable Speaker, Smart Speaker, Sonos

In 2019, Sonos acquired Snips, a company focusing on the development of embedded voice assistants based in France. Today, one of the reasons for the acquisition has been realised with Sonos announcing their own embedded voice control for all new and old voice compatible devices via a simple update. One of the key focuses that …

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