The Phorus PS10 Wireless Speaker, Onkyo Smart Speaker P3 and Pioneer
Elite Smart Speaker F4 are first to support this functionality
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 the
first DTS Play-Fi®-enabled wireless speakers to support the Works
with Amazon Alexa functionality. Initial products supported include
the Pioneer Elite Smart Speaker F4, Onkyo Smart Speaker P3 and the
Phorus PS10. Additional DTS Play-Fi-enabled products, including the
Klipsch Stream wireless multi-room audio lineup, as well as McIntosh
Laboratories, MartinLogan and THIEL Audio, will add the capability by
the end of Q1 2018.
Available via a Works with Amazon Alexa over-the-air firmware
update, consumers can now control audio playback on select DTS Play-Fi
products from another room using an Amazon Echo, Dot or Show. This
functionality allows users to verbally ask Alexa to play a song in a
specific room, groups of rooms or the whole house, adjust volume, skip
the track forward, mute, pause and stop the music.
"We continue to expand our range of Alexa voice control solutions
available to licensees, making DTS Play-Fi the first open wireless
multi-room audio platform to offer both integrated Alexa Voice Services
(AVS) and Works with Amazon Alexa," said Dannie Lau, general
manager, DTS Play-Fi, at Xperi. "We look forward to continuing to forge
a strong relationship with Amazon, the most widely recognized and
adopted voice service on the market."
"We're thrilled to offer the Pioneer Elite Smart Speaker F4 and Onkyo
Smart Speaker P3 as the first speakers in the DTS Play-Fi ecosystem that
can be controlled via Amazon Alexa," Nobuaki Okuda, director and CTO,
Onkyo Corporation and president, Onkyo and Pioneer Technology
Corporation. "With this update, consumers can not only control their
whole-home music system using their voice with our speakers, but using a
third party voice control product as well."
DTS Play-Fi technology enables lossless multi-room wireless audio
streaming from the world's most popular music services including Amazon
Music, Deezer, iHeartRadio, Juke, KKBox, Napster, Pandora, Qobuz, QQ
Music, SiriusXM, Spotify and TIDAL, thousands of Internet radio
stations, as well as personal music libraries, on any supported product.
In addition, DTS Play-Fi features advance streaming functionality like
wireless surround sound, stereo pairing, music station presets, and
audio/video synchronization.
The DTS Play-Fi ecosystem features the largest collection of products in
the whole-home wireless audio space, with more than 200 interoperable
speakers, sound bars, set-top boxes, and A/V receivers from the top
names in premium audio including Aerix, Anthem, Arcam, Definitive
Technology, DISH TV, Elite, Integra, Fusion Research, Klipsch,
MartinLogan, McIntosh, Onkyo, Paradigm, Phorus, Pioneer, Polk Audio,
Rotel, Sonus faber, Soundcast, SVS Sound, THIEL Audio and Wren 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 its 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.
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