CSR Brings nFore's Audio and Speech Enhancements to in-Car Bluetooth.CAMBRIDGE, England -- 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. (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :CSR): 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. 4767 To download: http://www.csr.com/images/hires/pem4767.jpg CSR (LSE:CSR) today announced that a range of speech and audio enhancement technologies have been added to CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia silicon to improve the quality of in-car Bluetooth applications. CSR has selected nFore's software to bring noise and 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. and music enhancements specifically for in-car Bluetooth solutions. nFore's technology comes via CSR's eXtension Partner Programme, an open 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 developers' programme which brings a host of third party software enhancements to the BlueCore5-Multimedia platform. The offering combines CSR's long history of designing Bluetooth technology for the automotive market (CSR customers include Audi, BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. , Nissan, Saab) with nFore's proven air acoustic technology, demonstrated through customers including Mitsubishi, Peugeot and Volkswagen. nFore offers adaptive 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 (Acoustic Echo Cancellation) to remove echo quickly at the start of a call, as well as a full-duplex solution to avoid voice clipping during the call. In addition, nFore's two omni-directional microphone solution and active 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. technology further reduces unwanted noise by more than 90%, allowing the user cleaner music or speech. nFore brings a number of audio enhancements for improved stereo sound including virtual reality sound and virtual stereo sound to bring sound to life. Also included is PowBass, a bass-boost solution for headphones Head-mounted speakers. Headphones have a strap that rests on top of the head, positioning a pair of speakers over both ears. For listening to music or monitoring live performances and audio tracks, both left and right channels are required. which utilises unique auditory characteristics to reproduce low frequencies. Due to a high performance 24-bit 64 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. on-chip DSP, CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia platform is the only Bluetooth platform available which can support a variety of third-party audio enhancement algorithms. In addition, BlueCore5-Multimedia provides 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. The radio transmits at +6.5dBm and receives at -90dBm which eliminates interference when listening to music or taking a call. When used in stereo headset applications, BlueCore5-Multimedia enables industry-leading battery life of more than 24 hours of music playback. Anthony Murray, Senior Vice President of CSR's Wireless Audio Strategic Business Unit, CSR commented, "The stringent requirements of the automotive market can appear to be a barrier to entry to new players in Bluetooth. However, nFore's market proven software combined with CSR's automotive qualified silicon provides an easy route for designing quality in-car Bluetooth hands-free systems." "The flexibility of CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia silicon means that we are able to bring our speech and audio software to enrich the experience of users in the automotive market," added Jack Chen, Vice President, nFore. "nFore's participation in the eXtension Partner Programme allows CSR's automotive customers a generous set of acoustic technologies." About CSR CSR is the leading global provider of personal wireless technology and its product portfolio covers Bluetooth, GPS, 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 nFore Technologies nFore Technologies creates high quality semiconductor and software solutions for telecommunications and audio manufacturers worldwide. nFore's speech solutions facilitates full-duplex communication with echo cancellation, enabling superior voice quality exchange. For entertainment applications, nFore provides innovative audio enhancement technologies to improve the audience listening experience on-the-go. In addition to nFore's leading speech and audio enhancement solutions, we also have the additional benefits of specializing in Bluetooth integration and all kinds of Bluetooth profiles customization design. nFore is based in Taipei, Taiwan. More information can be found at www.nforetek.com |
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