Few audio standards have had the impact of MP3. But there’s more to audio codecs than just MP3. 3GPP audio standard format families, AAC and AMR, are the commercial powerhouses that are early in their ...

The author is APT product manager for WorldCast Systems. A paradigm shift has been taking place for several years, as we move gradually toward fully networked IP broadcasting facilities in which there ...

We have grown accustomed to “HD Everywhere” by consuming high-fidelity content in most aspects of our lives. State-of-the-art audio and video codecs such as MPEG AAC and H.264 have set our ...

One of the problems with most technologies is that they are jargon filled, and if you don’t know the secret handshakes, you won’t be welcomed into the club. The field of communications is certainly ...

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. Google today open-sourced Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses machine ...

Apple did its part in moving the world to wireless headphones. With the removal of the headphone jack with iPhone 7, the company made it clear that the future of audio is wireless. However, the ...

When Apple sidelined the 3.5-mm jack with the launch of last year’s iPhone 7, it looked like a bold move. But despite pockets of outrage over another clear case of planned obsolescence, it was a clear ...

Synopsys collaborated with Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) to release an implementation of the next-generation Bluetooth LE Audio Low Complexity Communication Codec (LC3) The new ...

At the NAB Radio Show, Neural Audio will demonstrate codec and preconditioning technology on its newest platforms, NeuStar 4.0 and in the software version, NeuStar SW4.0. The company said NeuStar was ...

Steam switched to the SILK audio codec, as used by Skype, in an update launched today. This brings "a significant improvement to Steam's voice chat quality," according to Valve. While the old codec ...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has arrived as equipment vendors break through the barriers of corporate telecom and IT infrastructure and politics. ARC ...