2003 Press Release Archive
- (December 22, 2003) Acoustic Magic and Analog Devices Collaboration: Can you hear me now? - Clear Voice Input with ADI DSPs
- (June 19, 2003) SpeechStudio and Acoustic Magic's form a strategic partnership to develop the market for Voice Control of computers
- (April 1, 2003) Acoustic Magic's Voice Tracker Array Microphone is now an alternative to headsets for VoIP Conferencing and E-Learning
Can you hear me now? - Clear Voice Input with ADI DSPs. Acoustic Magic makes 8 channel array microphones that enhance user productivity, provide freedom and improve voice recognition quality.
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SpeechStudio and Acoustic Magic's form a strategic partnership to develop the market for Voice Control of computers
SUDBURY, Mass., June19, 2003 - SpeechStudio, the leading provider of toolsets for developing, testing and delivering speech recognition in Windows applications, and Acoustic Magic, the leading supplier of desktop array microphones, have agreed to work together on products to accelerate hands-free computing.
Stephen Zeigler, CEO of SpeechStudio, states, "Our customers want to help people with busy hands and eyes: doctors, soldiers, housewives, scientists, even CEOs. The Voice Tracker™ Array Microphone is a breakthrough for Voice Control because it is effective both when the user is engaged at a desk, or is far from the keyboard. Its ability to follow the talker throughout the room is unique."
According to Bob Feingold, CEO of Acoustic Magic, "SpeechStudio is 'tuning' its software to optimize recognition through an array microphone. High accuracy, combined with Speech Studio's fundamental understanding of the architecture required for Voice Control, will accelerate the development of products for this market."
About SpeechStudio Inc. (www.SpeechStudio.com). SpeechStudio Inc. provides software tools to simplify and speed the integration, refinement, and testing of speech recognition and telephony for PC applications. SpeechStudio's tools support both telephony-style and workstation-style modalities . SpeechStudio Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and has been selling its SpeechStudio Suite and complementary product lines since 2000. The company is privately financed, and based in Portland, Oregon.
About Acoustic Magic, Inc. (www.AcousticMagic.com). Acoustic Magic, located just outside Boston, has developed the patented Voice Tracker™ Array microphone, which it has been selling since February 2002.
Enclosed in a sleek charcoal gray casing, the Voice Tracker™ fits unobtrusively under a computer monitor. Its unique technology locates a talker, and electronically steers a "listening beam", like an acoustic searchlight, in that direction. This creates spatial filtering; sounds from other parts of the room are not picked up. This noise reduction, coupled with increased sensitivity since the Voice Tracker's eight microphone elements are utilized continuously and constructively, give the Voice Tracker™ outstanding range and sound quality.
The Voice Tracker™ is the only array microphone certified by both Scansoft (for use with NaturallySpeaking) and IBM (for use with ViaVoice). It is the only array microphone on the market that can scan a full 180 degrees. The Voice Tracker™ can be connected to a PC through the sound card, or through the USB port (with an optional USB adapter).
Acoustic Magic's Voice Tracker™ Array Microphone is now an alternative to headsets for VoIP Conferencing and E-Learning
SUDBURY, Mass., April 1 - The Voice Tracker™ farfield array microphone is being used by customers of Centra Software (NASDAQ: CTRA), a leading provider of application software and services for real-time enterprise collaboration (RTEC), to replace headsets and facilitate more comfortable VoIP conferencing & collaboration.
"Centra has tested the Voice Tracker™ and it works well," said John Walsh, Vice President of Product Development for Centra Software. "It can be an effective alternative for certain people that don't want to use a headset, or for companies that want to have a group of people together in a room participating in a live, online conference or meeting, without using headsets."
According to Bob Feingold, Founder of Acoustic Magic, Inc., The Voice Tracker™ is effective in VoIP conferencing for two reasons. First, the Voice Tracker's spatial filtering and wide field of view enables long-range pickup, covering large conference rooms. Second, its Location Dependant Squelch (LDS) feature eliminates the echo to the far end that normally occurs with conventional far field microphones.
Enclosed in a sleek charcoal gray casing, the Voice Tracker™ fits unobtrusively under a computer monitor, or on a shelf or table. Its unique technology locates a talker, and electronically steers a "listening beam", like an acoustic searchlight, in that direction. This creates spatial filtering; sounds from other parts of the room are not picked up. This noise reduction, coupled with increased sensitivity since the Voice Tracker's eight microphone elements are utilized continuously and constructively, give the Voice Tracker™ outstanding range and sound quality.
Since the Voice Tracker™ knows the location of the talker, its processor can be instructed to ignore sounds coming from outside a specified Field of View. In the LDS mode, the Voice Tracker™ detects pauses in the conversation and turns off the microphone. The Voice Tracker™ will turn on again as soon as it hears sounds from within the field of view. If the speakers are placed to the side of the microphone (as they normally are), sounds from the speakers will be outside the Field of View and will not turn on the microphone. Therefore the microphone does not pick up the talker from the other end of the line, and there is no echo.
The Voice Tracker™ can steer from one talker to the next in a few milliseconds. The Voice Tracker™ can be connected to a PC through the sound card, or through the USB port (with an optional USB adapter). More product detail is available at http://www.AcousticMgaic.com.
About Acoustic Magic, Inc. Acoustic Magic, located in the Boston suburbs, is a privately held company founded in 2000. Its microphones have been used for Speech Recognition (the Voice Trackertm is certified by IBM for ViaVoice and Scansoft for Dragon NaturallySpeaking) and transcription recording applications. For additional information, contact Bob Feingold (Bob@AcousticMagic.com) 978 440 9384.
