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Acoustic Technologies Now Shipping ATS6100 Speakerphone Software Enhanced with Wideband Audio Support.


MESA, Ariz. -- SoundClear(R) Software Enables Full-Duplex Hands-Free for VoIP, 3G Video and Other Wideband Audio Applications

Acoustic Technologies, the leader in high-quality full-duplex speakerphone solutions for mobile handsets and VoIP, today announced the immediate availability of its SoundClear(R) ATS6100 software for 16kHz wideband audio applications. This enhanced software improves voice clarity, full-duplex operation and speaker volume for 16kHz voice applications. The ATS6100 SoundClear software provides crisp, clear speakerphone operation for mobile conferencing, video calling and hands-free operation. The application is ideal for newly emerging USB-based PC speakerphone devices used with services such as Skype and Yahoo, and for WiFi/WiBro-enabled phones, VoIP desktop and conference phones, and high-growth 3G mobile handsets.

Mobile and VoIP users are demanding products that solve the problem of poor speakerphone sound quality caused by echoes, delays and harsh noise environments. SoundClear software enables natural conversation and simultaneous access to voice, data, and video over cellular and IP networks. SoundClear optimizes speech intelligibility Noun 1. speech intelligibility - the intelligibility of speech (usually measured in the presence of noise or distortion)
intelligibility - the quality of language that is comprehensible
 with full-duplex control that adaptively monitors, detects, and processes incoming voice, echo and noise signal power levels.

"SoundClear ATS6100 software is a highly integrated voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies.  system designed to deliver full-duplex speakerphone performance for applications merging voice, data and video. SoundClear enables natural-flowing speakerphone operation that will help usability and acceptance of VoIP and other wideband telephony," said Greg Eslinger Greg Eslinger (born April 23, 1983) is a center for the Denver Broncos. He played college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and was a four-year starter. As a senior, he was awarded the Outland Trophy, which is given to college football's best interior lineman, as well as , vice president software solutions group at Acoustic Technologies. "There is tremendous demand for the improvements that SoundClear software delivers in full-duplex performance, noise reduction and overall speakerphone quality."

The SoundClear ATS6100 software integrates a combination of patented techniques for acoustic echo cancellation The elimination of an echo in a two-way voice transmission. Echo is created in the telephone company's central office switch when two-wire lines from the customer are converted to four-wire lines for backbone trunks. , noise cancellation (1) The elimination of unwanted signals in an electronic circuit. See noise and dynamic noise reduction.

(2) The elimination of unwanted noise in the environment using noise cancelling headphones.
, sound enhancement and full-duplex control that work together to provide dramatic improvements in sound quality. With the SoundClear Noise Cancellation technology, major environmental and line noise sources are removed providing superior performance, even with changing levels of background noise. Other SoundClear speech enhancements include a voice-band graphic equalizer graphic equalizer
n.
An electronic equalizer that allows one to increase or decrease a fixed set of frequency ranges in an audio system.



graphic equalizer  

See under equalizer.
 for optimal speech intelligibility.

Optimized for full-duplex operation and improved sound quality, key features of the SoundClear software utilize a combination of both time and frequency domain processing to provide more than 42dB total echo rejection, no distortion or speech clipping, and dynamic adaptation to changing conditions such as noise, speech levels and delay. SoundClear software is configurable for various audio performance demands and system constraints.

The ATS6100 is available for the Texas Instruments See TI.

(company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company.

A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq.
 C54x and C55x families, the StarCore(TM) SC1000 family of processor cores, the Teak teak, tall deciduous tree (Tectona grandis) of the family Verbenaceae (verbena family), native to India and Malaysia but now widely cultivated in other tropical areas.  and Teak-Lite, the ZSP ZSP Zrzeszenie Studentów Polskich
ZSP Zone de Solidarite Prioritaire (Priority Solidarity Zone)
ZSP Zero-Symmetric Pareto (statistical distribution)
ZSP Zenworks Starter Pack
, PowerPC and ARM9. The solution is optimized for high voice clarity with efficient use of MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second.  and memory. The software is portable to other commercial or proprietary processor architectures.

About Acoustic Technologies

Acoustic Technologies is a privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
 headquartered in Mesa, Ariz. Acoustic Technologies creates high-quality semiconductor and software solutions for leading telecom manufacturers worldwide. The SoundClear(R) brand of patented full-duplex communication and echo cancellation solutions is enabling significant advancements in telecommunications voice quality. SoundClear provides natural bi-directional communication in business speakerphones, mobile phones, VoIP telephones, hands-free car kits, Bluetooth accessories, and other speakerphone enabled products. For additional information, the company can be reached directly at 480-507-4376 or via the Internet at www.acoustictech.com.

SoundClear is a registered trademark of Acoustic Technologies Inc. All other service marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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