NAB 2023

Las Vegas Convention Center / April 15, 2023 - April 19, 2023

NAB 2023

C3529, Central Hall

NAB, one of the largest shows for media, entertainment and technology is coming up – in no place other than The Entertainment Capital of the World. Of course, Fraunhofer will be in Las Vegas, too. Visit us in Central Hall at booth C3529 to discover our state-of-the-art technologies.

^{MPEG-H Audio: Personalized and Immersive Sound for Broadcast and Streaming}

With MPEG-H, Next Generation Audio is already a reality: broadcasters and immersive music streaming providers around the globe count on it for their services. In Brazil and South Korea, MPEG-H Audio is on the air 24/7 and Sony's immersive 360 Reality Audio music streaming services are based on MPEG-H Audio. The immersive music tracks, available from providers such as Amazon Music, Tidal, nugs.net, and Sony Select, can be enjoyed on mobile devices (with headphones), soundbars, AVRs, smart speakers, and in the car.

Listen to a 3D audio experience that perfectly matches your preferences. With MPEG-H, you can choose from presets or create your own settings. It is now possible, for example, to switch between different languages, adjust the volume of a sports commentator, enhance the dialogue, and choose from several audio description options. All these features contribute to the pristine sound that listeners expect from quality services today.

^{Goodbye to Interrupted or Buffering Audio and Video Streams – thanks to xHE-AAC}

xHE-AAC, the latest generation of the AAC codec family, is the ideal solution for today’s audio and video streaming services – be it movies, music, audiobooks, podcasts or digital radio. With a stereo bitrate range from 12 kbit/s to 500 kbit/s and higher, as well as improved speech quality and stereo imaging, xHE-AAC noticeably improves sound quality. Its mandatory MPEG-D DRC loudness and dynamic range control and seamless bitrate adjustment using DASH and HLS guarantees the best user experience in any playback situation. xHE-AAC decoding is natively supported in Android, Fire OS, iOS, and Windows. At MWC 2023, Fraunhofer shows the latest features: xHE-AAC encoding of live broadcasts and events to complement its existing file-based encoding.

^{LC3/LC3plus: High-quality Audio for the Entire Communication Ecosystem}

The new LC3/LC3plus audio codec was jointly developed by Ericsson and Fraunhofer IIS to address the drawbacks of today's wireless communication platforms. The low complexity of the codec meets the requirements of wireless communication platforms such as Bluetooth, DECT, and VoIP terminals. By reducing the required bit rate by about 50 percent compared to older codecs, LC3 and LC3plus enable energy-saving services that make a longer battery life or the development of smaller products possible. Thanks to the flexible codec design, applications are not limited to voice services, but can also be extended to high-quality music streaming. At the same time, the codec operates with low coding delay, low computational complexity, and small memory requirements.

Learn more about LC3/LC3plus at our booth and experience the quality of a phone call using LC3plus.