APTX, a leading provider of licensable intellectual-property for high-performance audio compression, today announces that the company is developing new technology and capabilities – including innovative coding algorithms and novel implementation techniques – to facilitate the introduction of a unique, highly scalable audio codec called apt-X Scalable, and to enhance the performance of the company’s existing product portfolio. These new and more powerful designs are the direct benefits of ongoing internal research and development programs concentrating on various aspects of scalable audio codec design – high-performance “cognitive” architectures that are inherently and elegantly capable of intelligent, automatic, and dynamic adaption across important dimensions of operation and in response to varying environmental conditions. These dimensions and conditions include audio resolution, temporal latency, error resilience, available bandwidth, computational power, and energy consumption.
apt-X Scalable
APTX recently demonstrated its core competencies in the design of scalable audio codecs with the introduction of apt-X Lossless in the spring of 2009. This new product is the latest addition to the apt-X series of low-latency audio compression solutions for high-definition audio in broadcast, professional, and consumer applications, and offers sampling rates up to 96 kHz and sample resolutions up to 24 bits. APTX now plans to reach more applications – from media players to wireless microphones – with apt-X Scalable, the company’s first cognitive, scalable audio codec.
Noel McKenna, CEO of APTX, said: “Scalable audio coding elegantly solves various real-world deployment issues, such as compromised bandwidth over wireless links or internet connections, and power conservation in portable applications. APTX has a vision to bring highly scalable audio codec technology to market. As a company, APTX is founded on world-class fundamental research. Advanced development is imperative to sustain business growth, maintain competitive advantage and open new markets. I am pleased to say that, as the result of our efforts, APTX now has the means to embed cognitive, scalable functionality to apt-X audio codecs, first in apt-X Lossless and now in apt-X Scalable.” APTX is renowned in professional audio for the apt-X series of low-latency audio codecs – Standard apt-X, Enhanced apt-X, apt-X Live, and recently, apt-X Lossless.
Potential applications in high-definition audio for apt-X Scalable include: extended battery life in portable media players; improved streaming to wireless peripherals; optimal use of network bandwidth for dynamic mix of audio traffic in VoIP; Internet audio services such as surround-sound radio and interactive gaming; broadcast audio; and digital wireless microphones.