Audience, a maker of voice processing technology that mimics the sort of audio processing that happens in the human brain, has announced its $15 million third round of financing.
We actually covered Audience’s unveiling in February, and first broke news on the funding, but the announcement fills out list of investors,and now includes Tallwood Venture Capital and VentureTech Alliance. We already mentioned Paul Allen’sVulcan Capital and New Enterprise Associates.
The Mountain View, Calif., company makes the A1010, a voice processor that can filter out noise and sharpen voice reception in cellular phone headsets. The company will use the money to accelerate its business growth.
The investment brings total funding amount to date to $45 million.
The A1010 groups and processes complex mixtures of sound and thus handles sound the way people actually perceive it and filter out noise. Trends in cellular usage will favor this company. Laws such as California’s upcoming law require cell phone users to use hands-free headsets while driving, but the quality of voice head sets is poor.
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RK said:
This product is way to late to the market, there is Jawbone funded by Khosla Ventures, who is shipping product in volume, that too system product. Seems to this DSP stuff is bunch of FUD, if Jawbone can do this SW DSP and bunch of discerete Mic’s, than who needs this discrete Voice processor business, I can do this either on existing processor or some HW logic on audio codec.
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Charles Notley said:
RK == FUD
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rk said:
Charles,
I see you are their recruiter, I do not think you understand DSP, otherwise you will be filling one of those job slots! -
Attis said:
What a claim! As far as I know we have no idea how the brain processes audio….
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