the buzz
What People Are Saying
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Our customers are delighted with the voice quality of LG mobile phones that include Audience's noise suppression technology. The Audience voice processor provides the most advanced noise suppression available in the market, and we will continue to partner with them to offer our customers superior communications experiences in the noisiest places. Vice President, LG Electronics R&D Center, Korea, October 2008 |
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Voice quality is fundamental to satisfied users of mobile phones and, they want good voice quality no matter where they are. Cell phones with Audience's voice processor give consumers the noise suppression features they need to hear and be heard in any location despite the noise level. Will Strauss, President & Principal Analyst, Forward Concepts, October 2008 |
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In the Wall Street Journal article about the Technology Innovation Awards, Robert Drost, a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems Inc. and one of the judges, said the Audience technology,“addresses what many people recognize is a big problem on cellphones.” Robert Drost, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc., September 2008 |
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“We are thrilled to be working with such an innovative company as Audience. Audience has the most impressive advanced noise suppression solution in the market, and we believe that our customers will have a much better communications experience in noisy places.” Byungrok Jung, SKT Manager of Mobile Device Team, July 2008 |
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“Everyone has noise cancellation chips too but I've never found one that will work like Audience's.” Will Strauss, Forward Concepts, May 2008 |
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“Audience’s technology is a remarkable innovation with many applications. The company already has design wins for its first voice processor for the mobile handset market and will be making its technology available to other markets in the future.” George Pavlov, Tallwood Venture Capital, April 2008 |
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“At Mobile World Congress, I had 28 scheduled interviews and skimmed by several times that many booths. Although I observed many improved products and even a few new wireless chipsets, the product that most impressed me was not wireless per se. Actually, it was an audio chip that I can actually call a ‘breakthrough’ product.” Will Strauss, Forward Concepts, February 2008 |
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“We congratulate Audience for being selected as a finalist in the category of Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up for the 2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards." Bill Gajda, Chief Commercial Officer of the GSMA, February 2008 |
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“As the mobile phone market continues to grow, consumers are demanding clearer voice reception from their handsets." "Improvements in non-stationary noise suppression, such as that offered by the new Audience Voice Processor, can make a dramatic difference in cell phone communications, offering handset users improved voice quality in noisy environments.” Flint Pulskamp, Wireless and Mobile Semiconductor Analyst, IDC, February 2008 |
| "Audience is the first company to deploy a product based on truly neuromorphic principles." Raymond Kurzweil - World-leading Inventor, Thinker and Futurist |
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| "Audience has extended my work in VLSI implementation of Neural Systems and brought it to new heights!" Carver Mead - Professor and Inspiration for a Generation of Microchip Inventors |
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"Audience has a unique solution to the problem of noise experienced by billions of users of mobile handsets worldwide." George Pavlov - General Partner, Tallwood Venture Capital |
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Inaugural Member of the Open Handset Alliance |
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"Based on the type of aural processing done by the human brain, Audience's new technology enables people to truly be heard when communicating via a mobile handset." Forest Baskett - General Partner, New Enterprise Associates, Former Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics |
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"Paul Allen and Vulcan have supported Audience's revolutionary technology since inception. It's exciting to see this product at the intersection of biology and technology come to market!" Steve Hall - Managing Director, Vulcan Capital |
| "The effect of Audience's technology is not subtle: it's amazing." Robert P. Colwell - Former Chief Architect of Intel's Pentium Microprocessors |
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| "Audience is improving the cellphone voice communications experience by making it easier to be understood in noisy environments." Larry Rabiner - Former VP of Research at AT&T Labs |
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