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

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'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 ...

Wolfson Microelectronics introduced the WM8569 stereo CODEC, targeted for a range of audio applications including sound cards, digital televisions, DVD-RW devices and the rapidly growing portable ...

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

Bluetooth SIG announced the official release of Bluetooth LE Audio, which will allow audio companies to revert back to standardized practices rather than create proprietary audio codecs. The new Low ...

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, ...

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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 ...