Smartphone manufacturers all but took away our beloved phones with headphone jacks. Now we’re left buying admittedly great wireless earbuds hand over fist. But listening to music is no longer a ...

Skype will license a high-quality audio codec in its latest VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) software to any developer or vendor free of charge, the eBay subsidiary announced Tuesday. The codec, ...

In a bid to put an end to the all-too-familiar choppy, robotic voice calls that come with low bandwidth, Google is open-sourcing Lyra, a new audio codec that taps machine learning to produce ...

Audio codecs dictate the quality, stability, and power use of a headphone's Bluetooth connection. But they're hide-and-seek champions on Android. That said, we’re not always shown our audio codec ...

These well-built headphones sound good, but if your Bluetooth playback device doesn’t support Sony’s LDAC—an excellent but not widely supported codec—you’d be better served by headphones that support ...