AES tackles relevant issues with Product Design Track
Published: ASIA
WORLD: Conrad Cooke – the 133rd AES Convention Product Design Track chair – has developed a combination of 13 key tutorials, workshops and master class events for this year’s convention in October. Convention co-chair Jim McTigue stated that the Track is designed ‘to provide deep insights into emerging technology’.
‘My goal was to ferret out the most relevant issues facing today’s product designers,’ commented Mr Cooke. ‘I uncovered a wealth of knowledge, and selected 13 presentations which present techniques to help solve some of those common issues. We are confident that attendees will come away with invaluable information that will greatly benefit their future thinking.’
The first item on the Track will be led by Dolby Laboratories’ Alan Seefeldt, and is named: ‘A Next Generation Audio Processing Suite For The Enhancement of Acoustically Challenged Devices’. For this talk, a commercial audio processing suite has been developed to enhance the sound of acoustically challenged devices such as laptops, tablets, and mobile phones, and the tutorial will address the design principles and algorithms developed for the suite.
Meanwhile, a presentation named: ‘Implementing Application Processor Agnostic Audio Systems For Portable Consumer Applications’ will be led by Jess Brown from Wolfson Microelectronics. This tutorial will outline future audio trends for portable consumer devices, and will cover topics such as HD audio voice, capture, playback and share.
The ‘Don't Make Your Product a Noise Nightmare’ master class is to be presented by William Whitlock, president/chief engineer at Jensen Transformers, whilst Jeff Essex from AudioSyncrasy will lead a tutorial named: ‘Audio For iPad Publishers’. Elsewhere, Mr Essex will also co-present a talk named: ‘Audio In HTML 5’ with Jory K Prum from Studio.Jory, whilst Laurent Le Faucheur from Texas Instruments will lead a tutorial named: ‘Multimedia Device Audio Architecture.’
A presentation named: ‘Audio DSP Requirements For Tomorrow's Mobile and Portable Devices’ is to be led by John Richards from Oxford Digital Limited with presenters Peter Eastty from Oxford Digital, Howard Brown from IDT, Bob Adams from ADI, Alan Kramer from SRS Labs, Julia Backman from Nokia and Cyril Martin from RIM.
Other presentations included in the Track are: ‘Ethernet Standard Audio’, ‘Rub and Buzz and Other Irregular Loudspeaker Distortion’, ‘An Overview of Audio System Grounding and Interfacing’, ‘AVB Networking For Product Designers’ and ‘Graphical Audio/DSP Applications Development Environment For Fixed And Floating Point Processors’.