Smartphone manufacturers all but took away our beloved phones with headphone jacks. Now we’re left buying admittedly great wireless earbuds hand over fist. But listening to music is no longer a ...

Sony's LDAC codec enables hi-res audio on Android phones, but you need to download the Sound Connect companion app and change this setting to use it.

The author is APT product manager for WorldCast Systems. A paradigm shift has been taking place for several years, as we move gradually toward fully networked IP broadcasting facilities in which there ...

When Apple sidelined the 3.5-mm jack with the launch of last year’s iPhone 7, it looked like a bold move. But despite pockets of outrage over another clear case of planned obsolescence, it was a clear ...

The makers of the AV1 video format have started the Open Audio Codec.

Google's interest in the royalty-free Vorbis audio codec raises new possibilities for successors CELT and, in the longer run, Ghost. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

codec ' Lyra ' that can maintain sound quality comparable to the original voice even at a low bit rate of 3 kbps. Google AI Blog: Lyra: A New Very Low-Bitrate Codec ...

Skype will license a high-quality audio codec in its latest VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) software to any developer or vendor free of charge, the eBay subsidiary announced Tuesday. The codec, ...

Apple did its part in moving the world to wireless headphones. With the removal of the headphone jack with iPhone 7, the company made it clear that the future of audio is wireless. However, the ...