references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . july 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message audience type public industry semiconductors founded 2000 founder dr. lloyd watts headquarters united states key people peter santos president & ceo website audience.com audience is an american mobile voice and audio processing company based in mountain view california and is one of the 34 founding members of the open handset alliance . they specialize in improving voice clarity and noise suppression for a broad range of consumer products including cellular phones mobile devices and pcs . audience is the first company to have reverse engineered the human hearing system and model its processes onto a chip enabling computers and mobile devices to use the same kind of auditory intelligence that humans employ . 1 by using this technology in conjunction with two or more microphones background noise is suppressed improving the quality of the remaining voice and reducing distraction for the listener . 2 this technology mimics the cocktail party effect . in 2010 audience partnered with htc to integrate their noise suppression technology into the google nexus one smartphone . the next year at & t introduced eight different handsets powered by audience s earsmart technology including the samsung galaxy s iii skyrocket and the htc vivid . in 2013 audience unveiled its es515 a combination voice processor and audio codec . this single slot solution enables device manufacturers to streamline their designs negating the need for a separate voice processor and codec . 3 contents 1 background 2 products 3 technology 4 applications 5 awards 6 external links 7 references background edit the company s core technology reduces background noise and improves voice clarity on smartphones computers and tablets . the company s technology has shipped in more than 140 devices including the nexus one samsung galaxy s galaxy s 4 galaxy note the iphone4 and 4s and the lg g2 . audience also works with other mobile phone manufacturers such as huawei google htc sharp pantech zte and others . in 2010 the company announced a collaboration with at & t to deliver its advanced voice capabilities to at & t devices and is engaged with multiple operators around the world . most recently the company announced its first design implementation in the pc space with the dell vostro 5460 . products edit the company currently has two lines of processors advanced voice and smart sound both branded as earsmart . advanced voice processors come in a variety of models the es110 supports 1 microphone es305 and es310 supports 2 microphones and the company s latest generation es325 supports 3 microphones which was announced at mobile world congress 2013 . smart sound processors combine the advanced voice processor feature set hd call quality wideband noise suppression bandwidth expansion acoustic echo cancelation and improved performance for automatic speech recognition with a stereo audio codec . the company introduced its smart sound processor category at consumer electronics show 2013 with the launch of the es515 . technology edit the company s technology is built around the foundation of computational auditory scene analysis casa a field of study that builds on the concept of auditory scene analysis asa a term first coined by psychologist albert bregman . asa enables humans to accurately group sounds even when composed of multiple frequencies as in music or when heard simultaneously and avoid blending sources . as a result asa allows the listener to correctly distinguish and identify a sound of interest like a voice from other noise sources . casa attempts to recreate sound source separation in the same manner as human hearing but in machines . using the principles of casa audience s earsmart processors act like a human cochlea and group different sounds based on a diverse list of cues such as pitch onset offset time spatial location and harmonicity . these simultaneous sounds are evaluated and grouped by source . in doing this the microphones of a mobile device together with audience s proprietary fast cochlea transform technology can identify and group sounds which are classified as noise remove or at least reduce them and leave the remaining clear voice signal intact . applications edit beyond voice and video calls this technology has been proven to improve the reliability and task completion rate of asr automatic speech recognition in noisy environments as well as improve the quality and usability of media capture functions . outside of the smartphone tablet and mobile pc space audience is said to be targeting the smart tv and automotive markets where voice is becoming more commonplace as a form of user interface . awards edit audience was the silver winner in the 2008 wall street journal technology innovation awards and the winner of the semiconductor category . the company was included in gartner s cool vendors in semiconductors 2008 and selected as the most innovative true mobile start up for the 2008 gsma mobile innovation global awards . external links edit official website google nexus one press release lloyd watts s audience gives phones better ears audience ceo sound as important to cellphones as touch 10 coolest features of the samsung galaxy s iii nexus one voice quality victory via audience a1026 voice processor audience announces 3rd generation sound processor es515 references edit http www.audience.com component zoo item audience announces next generation voice processor for mobile phones http phandroid.com 2010 01 11 nexus one voice quality victory via audience a1026 voice processor http www.anandtech.com show 6554 audience announces 3rd generation sound processor es515 http www.audience.com component zoo item audience announces next generation voice processor for mobile phones http phandroid.com 2010 01 11 nexus one voice quality victory via audience a1026 voice processor http www.anandtech.com show 6554 audience announces 3rd generation sound processor es515 v t e open handset alliance mobile operators bouygues telecom china mobile china telecom china unicom kddi nepal telecom ntt docomo softbank mobile sprint corporation t mobile telecom italia telef nica telus vodafone software companies access ascender corporation ebay google myriad group nuance communications nxp software omron packetvideo svox visualon semiconductor companies akm semiconductor inc. arm holdings audience broadcom csr plc joined as sirf cypress semiconductor freescale semiconductor gemalto intel marvell technology group mediatek mips technologies nvidia qualcomm qualcomm atheros renesas electronics st ericsson joined as ericsson mobile platforms synaptics texas instruments handset makers acer inc. alcatel mobile phones asus chaudhary group association of lg cci dell foxconn garmin htc huawei kyocera lenovo mobile lg electronics motorola mobility nec corporation samsung electronics sharp corporation sony mobile communications toshiba zte commercialization companies accenture borqs sasken communication technologies teleca the astonishing tribe wind river systems wipro technologies see also android dalvik virtual machine google nexus t mobile g1 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title audience company & oldid 718323355 categories mobile technologysemiconductor companies of the united statestechnology companies based in the san francisco bay areacompanies based in mountain view californiaelectronics companies established in 20002000 establishments in californiahidden categories articles lacking reliable references from july 2009all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction 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