Sony's LDAC codec enables hi-res audio on Android phones, but you need to download the Sound Connect companion app and change ...

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 ...

The WM8987 codec with fully differential-capable headphone driver is specifically designed to address Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) applications and equivalent proprietary ...

Now that the patents for the popular MP3 audio codec have expired, it’s unlikely that the format is going anywhere, despite many reports that misinterpreted what the end of the format’s licensing ...

Skype has a new audio codec in the works. For users of the service, which is pretty formidable already when it comes to video and audio calls over the internet, it has one significant improvement.

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Google today detailed SoundStream, an end-to-end “neural” audio codec that can provide higher-quality audio while encoding different sound types, including clean speech, noisy and reverberant speech, ...

Skype's got a new audio codec that it thinks you should be pumped about, and it's called "Opus." It's been kicked around at Skype since March 2009, though work didn't begin in earnest until June of ...

Norwood, Mass. – An AN'97-compatible audio codec from Analog Devices Inc. is said to aid system-level cost savings in PC-audio subsystems for PC and notebook OEMs and motherboard manufacturers. It ...

So, you’re checking out a pair of headphones online or at your local Best Buy and its got this swooshy red-and-white logo in the description that says “Snapdragon Sound,” and you wonder, “huh, what is ...

So my grandfather has been tinkering with video editing for awhile now. He's given me a CD with a video on it. When I play the thing all I get is sound. When I open it in Windows Media player 9, I ...

• USB Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor enables consumers to capture personal video content to create, edit, preview and produce Hollywood-style DVDs • DMN-8102 enables real-time conversion of a ...