

Tuesday to Thursday, various times, CC4/CC5
Audio is everywhere. It’s at the heart of everything we do – whether we’re collaborating at work, visiting a live event, or chilling out at home. It’s an essential means of conveying both information and emotion.
Audio is, of course, half of AV – and some would say it’s the more important half. In the collaboration and communication space, a meeting can continue if the video suddenly fails, but if the audio goes down then nothing can happen. And with online meetings having had a massive boost in recent years, corporates are now aware that audio quality translates into better communication and increased productivity.
In the live events space, delivering high-quality audio to every audience member has never been more important. Exciting new venues such as Sphere have made massive investments in audio systems that have far greater capabilities than what has gone before. Software plays an increasingly significant role, for instance in the spatial audio systems that can place sound at any point in space.
And in the home, consumers are increasingly investing in multi-room audio systems, high-spec media rooms and home cinemas.
Whatever the sector, the professional audio industry is continuously raising the quality of the audio experience.
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Great sound may impress, but true success in audio lies in ensuring every word is clear and understood—because intelligibility, not just quality, defines effective communication. During this talk Televic will discuss lessons learned, approaches and innovations in the field of intelligibility.
This session will explore the approach to sound design and will consider environmental characteristics, the role of acoustics, electroacoustics, and even psychoacoustics.
Presented by AudioForum: The Architecture of Sound, offers a fresh perspective on design insights for all professionals, from architects to acoustics experts, sound engineers to XR and AR developers - anyone engaged in the creation of soundscapes.
When discussing the relationship between space and sound, it is crucial to consider not just space as it is, (which may not even exist in a traditional sense), but also our perception of it and how we use it, guided by the information sound provides.
Presented by AudioForum: The Architecture of Sound, offers a fresh perspective on design insights for all professionals, from architects to acoustics experts, sound engineers to XR and AR developers - anyone engaged in the creation of soundscapes.
This session will consider the importance of considering the human inputs and interfaces for AI, security and sustainability.
Security, sustainability and AI have to be built around peoples' needs and they have to work around peoples' behaviors. We will review the latest insights from primary research and the engineering considerations to make technology human-centric.