Industry News Archives

QSound recently announced it will be licensing components of its microQ mobile sound system to phone manufacturer BenQ.  Full Story

Interesting article at Speech Technology magazine describing the role of VoiceXML and cellphones to provide auotmated audio content museum guides.  Full Story

XYZ Software releases SWF Automation Tool 2.5 for converting or batch converting wav/mp3 files into SWF.  Full Story

Sonaptic Limited announced completion of its JSR-234 Audio Engine and its involvement for developing this new standard for multimedia and 3D audio on mobile phones and convergence handsets using Java.  Full Story

JSR 234 Advanced Multimedia Supplements reaches Final Draft. JSR 234 compliant devices will give J2ME access to audio processing capabilities like equalizer, audio effects, artificial reverberation and positional 3D audio. Specification available for download.  Full Story

Music Media Watch. Steve Myers writes about the new features offered in Yamaha's most recent mobile device audio chipset, "Audioengine" (MA-7).  Full Story

The W3C advanced VoiceXML 2.1 to Candidate Recommendation. The document recommendation standardizes 8 common features including data, disconnect, grammar, foreach, mark, property, script, and transfer.  Full Story

Motorola and Sonaptic recently announced that Motorola has made a strategic minority investment in Sonaptic Limited, provider of Sonaptic 3D audio engine for mobile devices.   Full Story

Yamaha announces MA-7 chipset. Enhanced game and ringtone sound expression capability, hybrid synthesizer with maximum simultaneous output of 128-note polyphony, multifunction effector, and 3D positioning processor.  Full Story

Unwiredtec, Inc. launches the Impression Engine, a Flash preview design plug-in for Ringtone Creator software. Using the Impression engine, mobile content providers can create attractive and content secure ringtone previews that play through a website using the ubiquitous Flash player.  Full Story

Site Updates Archives

AMR technical information

June 27, 2005  Linked to VoiceAge web site for technical information about AMR voice and mobile audio codec.

Windows Mobile 5 SDK Audio reference

June 20, 2005  Linked to portion of Windows Mobile 5 SDK documentation pertaining to wave form audio and MIDI control.

MP3 Streaming with Macromedia Flash Communication Server

June 13, 2005  Linked to an article by aYo Binitie at Macromedia on how to create a real time streaming mp3 radio station with Flash and Flash Communication server.

Streaming MP3s with Flash Communication Server

June 06, 2005  Linked to an article by Robert Reinhardt at CommunityMX on setting up Flash mp3 real time streaming through Flash Communication Server 1.5.