SRS Labs and CSR Announce PureSpeech(TM) Bluetooth Audio Enhancement Technology
September 12 2008 - 7:36PM
PR Newswire (US)
- Respective industry leaders join forces to develop cutting-edge
advanced Bluetooth(R) audio solution for Bluetooth headsets SANTA
ANA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, England, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- SRS Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRSL), the industry leader in surround
sound, audio, and voice technologies, and CSR (LSE:CSR), the
technology and market leader in the Bluetooth industry and a
worldwide provider of wireless connectivity solutions, announced
today that they have entered into a joint engineering and marketing
partnership through CSR's extension Partner Program to create
PureSpeech(TM). This partnership was formed to offer CE and IT
manufacturers the most complete set of Bluetooth audio solutions by
bringing together the complementary expertise of the world's number
one supplier of Bluetooth silicon and the electronic industry's
leader in audio processing and optimization. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070322/LATH036LOGO) SRS and
CSR collaborated to produce PureSpeech, a ground breaking new
Bluetooth(R) software that delivers significant improvements to the
audio clarity of Bluetooth mono headsets. PureSpeech combines SRS
Labs' VIP+(TM) software, which improves audio quality at the near
end (what you, as the caller, hears), with CSR's Clear Voice
Capture (CVC) noise reduction software, which improves audio
quality at the far end (what the other person, the recipient,
hears). The combined CSR and SRS product, PureSpeech, will be
available from Q1, 2009 as an option on CSR's DSP-based BlueCore
Multimedia Bluetooth silicon. "CSR is an ideal partner for SRS to
expand its offering of audio processing solutions to an even wider
range of Bluetooth audio products," said Alan Kraemer, Chief
Technology Officer, SRS Labs. "Working with the industry leader in
Bluetooth technology, we anticipate bringing the same kind of audio
advances to the wireless world that we have brought to HDTVs, PCs,
portable media and automotive sound." PureSpeech is a complete
audio solution for manufacturers of Bluetooth devices that delivers
an important competitive advantage by significantly improving sound
clarity and tonal quality for both participants in a mobile phone
call, even if one party does not have a PureSpeech-enabled
headset/device. SRS VIP+ voice intelligibility processing software
ensures the user can hear the call even in a noisy environment, by
dynamically maximizing speech intelligibility through selective
formant enhancement. At the same time, CSR's CVC software provides
highly efficient removal of noise around the speaker using a
Bluetooth headset -- benefiting someone listening to the caller at
the far end. Anthony Murray, Senior Vice President of CSR's
Wireless Audio Strategic Business Unit commented, "Through CSR's
eXtension Partner Program, CSR and SRS have partnered to develop
PureSpeech which will improve the overall audio quality of both the
send and received audio of any Bluetooth headset using CSR's
solution." Since 2006, SRS has provided its WOW HD(TM) stereo
enhancement technology to CSR's eXtension Partner Program of
enhancements to the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) on its BlueCore5
Multimedia IC. CSR's Multimedia platform is the only Bluetooth
platform available which can support such third party audio
enhancement software. About CSR CSR is the leading global provider
of personal wireless technology and its product portfolio covers
Bluetooth, GPS, FM and Wi-Fi (IEEE802.11). 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, 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 http://www.csr.com/
About SRS Labs, Inc. Founded in 1993, SRS Labs is the industry
leader in audio signal processing for consumer electronics.
Beginning with the audio technologies originally developed at
Hughes Aircraft, SRS Labs holds over 150 worldwide patents and is
recognized by the industry as the foremost authority in research
and application of human auditory principals. Through partnerships
with leading global CE companies, semiconductor manufacturers and
software partners, SRS audio, surround sound and voice processing
technologies have been included in over one billion electronic
products sold worldwide including HDTVs, mobile phones, portable
media devices, PCs and automotive entertainment. In fact, SRS Labs
is the de-facto standard of HDTV audio processing with nine of the
top ten name brand flat panel TVs featuring SRS technology.
Additionally, SRS Labs surround sound solutions provide the
professional broadcast and recording industries with
high-performance production, back-haul, storage, and transmission
capability. SRS Labs supports manufacturers worldwide with offices
in the US, China, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For more
information, visit http://www.srslabs.com/. Except for historical
information contained in this release, statements in this release,
including those by Mr. Kraemer, may constitute forward-looking
statements regarding our assumptions, projections, expectations,
targets, intentions or beliefs about future events that are based
on management's belief, as well as assumptions made by, and
information currently available to, management. While the Company
believes that its expectations are based upon reasonable
assumptions, there can be no assurances that the Company's goals
and strategy will be realized. Numerous factors, including risks
and uncertainties, may affect the Company's actual results and may
cause results to differ materially from those expressed in
forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of the Company.
Some of these factors include the acceptance of new SRS Labs'
products and technologies, the impact of competitive products and
pricing, the timely development and release of technologies by the
Company, general business and economic conditions, especially in
Asia, and other factors detailed in the Company's Form 10-K and
other periodic reports filed with the SEC. SRS Labs specifically
disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statement whether as a result of new information, future
developments or otherwise. SRS Labs, Inc., Contact: SRS Press
Contact: Cyndee Pelino, Jim Noyd, Senior Marketing Manager Noyd
Communications Inc. 949-442-5518 310-374-8100 CSR Contact: Alan
Woolhouse David Marsden/Siobhan Gaffan CSR EML +44 1223 692 689 +44
208 408 8000
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