CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia is Now Available With NXP Software's LifeVibes(TM) Voice Speech Enhancement and Noise Cancellation Technology.CAMBRIDGE, England -- CSR plc CSR (LSE: CSR), or Cambridge Silicon Radio is a company based in Cambridge, England whose main product line is a single-chip implementation of the Bluetooth standard for radio-signal communication between devices. CSR is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer. (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. ) -- Ref: EMD EMD Electromechanical dissociation, see there 1195 -- Photo ref: PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) A standard for secure e-mail on the Internet. It supports encryption, digital signatures and digital certificates as well as both private and public key methods. Not widely used, work on PEM later evolved into S/MIME. See MIME. 4751 -- To download: http://www.csr.com/images/hires/pem4751.jpg CSR has announced a new third-party software enhancement for its BlueCore5-Multimedia platform. Continuing to build on the strength of CSR's eXtension Partner Programme, BlueCore5-Multimedia silicon now offers NXP NXP Next Experience (formerly Philips Semiconductors) Software's speech enhancement technology aimed at Bluetooth headsets, in-car hands-free kits and mobile phones. NXP Software's LifeVibes[TM]Voice engine, which enhances incoming and outgoing speech and suppresses background noise, addresses the acoustic limitations related to both speakers and microphones. NXP Software's technology offers full duplex (Computers) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; - of communications channels between computers; contrasted with The LifeVibes[TM] Voice engine offers the latest in 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. (AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission ), noise cancellation and voice clarity improvement. Brought together to improve the performance of Bluetooth mono and stereo headsets, the partnership with CSR specifically covers NXP Software's solutions for 2-microphone and 1-microphone noise reduction, AEC, intelligibility improvements and far-end noise reduction. Proven in numerous devices, the LifeVibes[TM] Voice engine provides a robust, mature solution, enabling device manufacturers to meet end-user quality expectations. Users can talk and listen comfortably in even the noisiest of environments, such as city streets or train stations. The software is pre-integrated for fast time-to-market and is also highly optimised, with minimal processing and power requirements. Thus, it delivers exceptional performance on the smallest of devices without compromising battery life. Due to the high-performance on-chip DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive , CSR's Multimedia platform is the only Bluetooth platform available which can support such third party audio enhancement software. In addition, BlueCore5-Multimedia offers superior sound quality with a best-in-class signal to noise ratio of -95dB. BlueCore5-Multimedia also leads the industry for power consumption and radio design. Cees Geel, Managing Director, NXP Software, commented, "Consumer demand for Bluetooth headsets is growing rapidly, putting pressure on device manufacturers to design high-quality products. Joining CSR's eXtension Partner Programme provides these device manufacturers with a 'one-stop shop' for proven, best in class audio enhancement software on one of the world's most widely used Bluetooth ICs." Anthony Murray, Senior Vice President of CSR's Wireless Audio Strategic Business Unit, commented, "The eXtension Partner programme was built around the class leading BlueCore-Multimedia, enabling CSR to bring third party innovation and the latest technological capabilities to Bluetooth technology." Murray continued, "Working with NXP Software combines an unsurpassed level of Bluetooth performance with industry leading speech enhancement, providing customers with the highest quality acoustics in the industry." About CSR CSR is the leading global provider of personal wireless technology and its product portfolio covers Bluetooth, FM receivers and WiFi (IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11). CSR offers developed hardware/software solutions, based around its silicon platforms, that incorporate, fully integrated radio, baseband and microcontroller elements. CSR's customers include industry leaders such as Apple, Dell, LG, Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nokia, Panasonic, RIM, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TomTom and Toshiba. CSR has its headquarters and offices in Cambridge, UK, and offices in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, India, France, Denmark, Sweden and both Dallas and Detroit in the USA. More information can be found at www.csr.com About NXP Software NXP Software is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. ) with worldwide local sales and support. NXP Software specializes in innovative multimedia solutions to help mobile device manufacturers deliver vibrant, easy-to-enjoy multimedia experiences. LifeVibes[TM] software for TV, music, video and voice dramatically improves voice clarity, creates a brilliant TV experience, makes music sound better, produces vivid video that rivals that of a TV, and makes life more fun with features like video shoot, edit, and share. News from NXP Software is located at www.software.nxp.com. For more information, please contact: NXP Software info.software@nxp.com NXP Forward-looking Statements This release may contain certain forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of NXP and certain plans and objectives of NXP with respect to these items. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future and there are many factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. |
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