Voice control of select DTS Play-Fi-enabled products, including Onkyo
and Pioneer home A/V products, via Alexa-enabled products, to be
available in Q1 2018
CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
DTS,
a global leader in high-definition audio solutions and a wholly owned
subsidiary of Xperi
Corporation (Nasdaq: XPER) ("Xperi"), is pleased to announce that
select Onkyo and Pioneer DTS Play-Fi®-enabled products,
including AVRs, sound bars and speakers, will soon support the Amazon
Alexa Connected Speaker APIs. This will allow voice-enabled selection of
music and control via an Alexa-enabled device, including the Amazon
Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, Amazon Tap, Amazon Fire TV, or any of the
three new DTS Play-Fi wireless speakers featuring far-field Alexa Voice
Service - the Phorus PS10 wireless speaker, Onkyo Smart Speaker P3 and
Pioneer Elite Smart Speaker F4 - that will begin shipping in late
Q3/early Q4. DTS Play-Fi technology allows one or more devices to be
linked together for multi-room music playback of Alexa, streaming
content, and seamlessly interacts with other Alexa-enabled products to
provide full group control of music playback.
Onkyo and Pioneer will roll out Alexa control through the Connected
Speaker APIs to hundreds of current and new DTS Play-Fi-enabled products
through firmware updates beginning in Q1 2018.
"With DTS Play-Fi's support of Alexa and the Connected Speaker APIs,
consumers will be able to control a whole-home audio system built from
the brands they crave and control it with the voice service they love,"
said Dannie Lau, general manager of the DTS Play-Fi division at Xperi.
"DTS Play-Fi technology provides consumers unprecedented choice in
products ranging from AVRs to lifestyle systems to portable speakers and
everything in between from some of the most prestigious brands in the
audio industry, like Onkyo and Pioneer."
"By integrating the Connected Speaker APIs and DTS Play-Fi, we are
bringing Alexa control into hundreds of Onkyo and Pioneer Play-Fi
products," said Nobuaki Okuda, director and CTO, Onkyo Corporation, and
president, Onkyo and Pioneer Technology Corporation. "Our customers will
enjoy the benefits of the world's largest voice control ecosystem
connecting with the broadest, most comprehensive multi-room streaming
technology available to deliver a seamless smart home experience."
Earlier this month, Onkyo and Pioneer began releasing firmware updates
on several products to add support for DTS Play-Fi multi-room audio
technology, with additional product updates slated for distribution
throughout Q3 and Q4 of 2017. More than 200 current and new Onkyo and
Pioneer products will launch with DTS Play-Fi support via a software
update.
DTS Play-Fi technology enables lossless multi-room wireless audio
streaming from the world's most popular music services, including Amazon
Music, Deezer, iHeartRadio, KKBox, Napster, Qobuz, QQ Music, Pandora,
SiriusXM, Spotify and Tidal, and thousands of internet radio stations,
as well as personal music libraries on any supported product. The DTS
Play-Fi ecosystem features the largest collection of products in the
whole-home wireless audio space, with more than 30 interoperable
speakers, sound bars, set-top boxes and receivers from the top names in
premium audio. The DTS Play-Fi platform allows products from different
brands to interoperate seamlessly, giving consumers an optimized
whole-home listening experience without the constraints of a single
brand system.
Benefits of DTS Play-Fi Technology
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Multi-room, multi-zone, multi-user listening experience: Connect
multiple audio systems that incorporate DTS Play-Fi technology into a
zone and enjoy music in every room of your home, perfectly
synchronized with no lag. Create multiple zones and stream different
music to different rooms from the same device. Every user in the home
can simultaneously stream from different devices and PCs that
incorporate DTS Play-Fi software to DTS Play-Fi-enabled products.
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Exceptional sound experience: DTS Play-Fi technology wirelessly
transmits high-quality lossless audio.
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Whole-home range: DTS Play-Fi technology works everywhere your
Wi-Fi® does, even if range extenders are used. It also
works over Ethernet, Powerline and other IP-based networking
technologies. There is no need for proprietary bridges or routers.
Most homes already have everything that is needed.
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Stream anything. Control everything: In addition to streaming
music services, users can download Play-Fi apps for Android, iOS
and Kindle Fire to gain access to more than 20,000 radio stations,
podcasts, local music, media servers and select cloud-based music
services. Set up, link and control all of the speakers on the network
from the same streamlined interfaces.
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Audio/video synchronization with Windows PCs: DTS Play-Fi
technology supports true audio/visual synchronization when streaming
audio from YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Video or any other video
source to a DTS Play-Fi speaker from a Microsoft Windows PC. DTS
Play-Fi technology is the only multi-room streaming platform to offer
lip-sync accurate synchronization with a video source, and the only
whole-home platform with operating system-level integration compatible
with every application and streaming service. The A/V sync feature is
available for existing and new purchasers of the premium DTS Play-Fi
HD Driver ($14.95). Additionally, all DTS Play-Fi Windows software
supports Windows 10.
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Wireless surround: DTS Play-Fi technology continues to
revolutionize the industry with the introduction of wireless surround
technology to provide an immersive home theater environment with
discrete 5.1 surround sound.
For more information about DTS, please visit www.dts.com
or connect with DTS on Facebook,
Twitter (@DTS)
and Instagram (@DTS).
About DTS, Inc.
Since 1993, DTS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Xperi Corporation, has
been dedicated to making the world sound better. Through its pioneering
audio solutions for mobile devices, home theater systems, cinema,
automotive and beyond, DTS provides incredibly high-quality, immersive
and engaging audio experiences to listeners everywhere. DTS technology
is integrated in more than two billion devices globally, and the world's
leading video and music streaming services are increasingly choosing DTS
to deliver premium sound to their listeners' network-connected devices.
For more information, please visit www.dts.com.
About Xperi Corporation
Xperi Corporation (Nasdaq: XPER) and brands, DTS, FotoNation, HD Radio,
Invensas and Tessera, are dedicated to creating innovative technology
solutions that enable extraordinary experiences for people around the
world. Xperi's solutions are licensed by hundreds of leading global
partners and have shipped in billions of products in areas
including premium audio, automotive, broadcast, computational imaging,
computer vision, mobile computing and communications, memory, data
storage, and 3D semiconductor interconnect and packaging. For more
information, please call 408-321-6000 or visit www.xperi.com.
DTS, Xperi and their respective logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of affiliated companies of Xperi Corporation in the United
States and other countries. All other company, brand and product names
may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
About Onkyo
Since 1946, Onkyo has been passionately committed to developing audio
products that deliver uncommon performance, quality and value. Bundling
proprietary technologies and innovations with other sound-enhancing
exclusives, Onkyo continues to create award-winning products that are
lauded by industry-leading publications. The company's philosophy is to
deliver products that are superbly designed and built to a consistently
outstanding standard of excellence. The results can be seen in the
obvious quality of any Onkyo-manufactured product, even before it's
turned on.
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