Smart Speaker
Amazon’s Worldwide Digital business unit apparently had a $3 billion operating loss in the first quarter of 2022. This is not all related to Alexa, this business unit also includes Prime Video (and more). This is backed up by reports in 2018 that stated Alexa and Echo lost around $5 billion in that year. For […]
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Netflix recently announced the availability of spatial audio to all devices, but this feature does not require a surround speaker system as it is through a two channel audio configuration. Since it is two channel audio based, the availability of spatial audio will be rather wider unlike Dolby ATMOS also available in some of the […]
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The Bluetooth SIG launched Auracast™ this week. This is the brand name for the broadcast audio ability enabled by LE Audio. It has been eagerly waited for by the industry and is very interesting new way to use Bluetooth. Regarding branding, this reminds me of previous attempts by technology organisations to stir up consumer […]
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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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Syntiant is a start-up company founded in 2017 focusing on developing always on, machine learning based processor solutions. Investors for Syntiant includes a whole spectrum of tech industry companies such as Amazon, Bosch, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, and Renasas and more. The NDP100 chip (NDP = Neural Decision Processor), from Syntiant achieves industry leading ultra-low power […]
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This piezo MEMS Microphone patent was filed back in 2020 and was granted 1 March 2022. “The invention provides a piezoelectric micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) microphone includes a base with a cavity and a piezoelectric diaphragm arranged on the base.” Right now, this appears to be the only significant competitor device to Vesper MEMS products. Whether […]
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Recent Sonos Roam SL release from Sonos is quite interesting in two ways. The first point is that the new Sonos Roam SL drops the built-in microphone meaning it is also dropping the voice assistant feature. The second point is that by dropping the built-in microphone, the Sonos Roam SL will also drop Sonos Trueplay. […]
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