Bluetooth Technology Alliance recently launched a new Bluetooth feature - Auracast Broadcast Audio, which will provide a life-changing audio experience and enhance the way people contact others and the world around them. Auracast broadcast audio enables an audio transmitter to broadcast to an unlimited number of nearby audio receivers, providing new opportunities for developers to innovate and providing huge benefits for public places.
Auracast Broadcast Audio
LE Audio Add Auracast Broadcast Audio to Bluetooth technology. This new feature enables audio sources to broadcast audio streams to an unlimited number of Bluetooth audio receiving devices. Bluetooth audio broadcasting can be turned on, allowing the receiving devices in any range to participate, or off, allowing only the receiving devices with the correct key to participate.
Auracast Broadcast Audio Features
Auracast Broadcast Audio will also support new features of Bluetooth hearing aids, which will become an advanced new hearing aid system (ALS) that will be easier and less expensive to deploy, while providing higher audio quality and greater privacy.
Auracast broadcast audio will overcome the challenges of traditional ALS solutions by using familiar and proven techniques that are common in , which are ubiquitous in most consumer audio devices. It will provide broader deployment and increase ALS availability for hearing loss while expanding the applicability of these systems to consumers with various levels of hearing health.
While the market for Bluetooth audio transmission devices is growing steadily, the pace of innovation in Bluetooth audio technology has not only not stopped, but is accelerating. The newly launched LE Audio (low-power audio) enhances the performance of Bluetooth audio, supports hearing aids, and adds new features to add broadcast audio, which will undoubtedly create new products and use cases. It can be said that LE Audio will be a new fulcrum for the continued growth of Bluetooth audio transmission devices, and it will leverage the new future of Bluetooth audio transmission technology.
LE Audio's technological innovation has also made the birth and enrichment of new audio peripherals possible. LE Audio's low-power features support new audio peripherals, such as more widely used in Bluetooth hearing aids, and can be more flexible to adapt to different shapes. With the application of LE Audio technology, smaller appearance, less interference and more comfortable wearing hearing aids will appear, thereby improving the quality of life of people with hearing impairments. Data shows that 500 million people worldwide currently need hearing assistance, and by 2050, 2.5 billion people worldwide are expected to suffer from varying degrees of hearing impairment, and the industrialization of LE Audio will bring good news to reduce or even relieve hearing impairment.
In addition, LE Audio will provide people with a new and unique audio experience based on the newly added broadcast audio features. This new feature allows audio source devices (such as smartphones) to broadcast one or more audio transmissions to an unlimited number of audio receiving devices (such as headphones, speakers, hearing aids), which will enhance the way people interact with each other and with their surroundings, allowing people to listen to clearer sound quality together, or choose the sound they want to hear the most, so that the auditory senses can be sublimated and real auditory "freedom". With the introduction of this broadcast audio, Bluetooth technology will be applied to public places, and people will interact with audio in various public places and environments to gain an unprecedented experience. It is estimated that more than 60 million locations will benefit from the deployment of Bluetooth broadcast audio in the long term.
In addition, LE Audio will provide better audio performance. LE Audio provides higher audio quality with lower power consumption, allowing audio developers to meet consumers' growing performance needs and drive the continued growth of the entire audio peripheral market ( headset , in-ear headsets, etc.). Xiaomi is one of the first tryers of LE Audio. It recently launched the first TWS headset that supports LE Audio. It uses an LC3 codec. It can effectively reduce the full-link delay of the headset, which has greatly improved the latency indicators of previous generations of wireless headphones.In addition, since LE Audio's Broadcast Audio technology can realize audio sharing functions, in the future, member companies of the Bluetooth Technology Alliance will be able to use this technology to achieve broadcast-based Bluetooth audio sharing.
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