“Qualification for consumer products seeking to add support for LE Audio is now enabled,” it said.
The group said consumers could expect products supporting LE Audio to become available in “the coming months”, with availability expected to increase by year-end.the LE Audio specification in January 2020, it said that Bluetooth audio devices would soon support two operation modes. “[The new specification] will support development of the same audio products and use cases as Classic Audio, while introducing new features to improve their performance as well as enable new ones.”
“Extensive listening tests have shown that LC3 will provide improvements in audio quality over the SBC codec included with Classic Audio, even at a 50% lower bit rate,” Fraunhofer communications audio head Manfred Lutzky said.Auracast lets an audio source, like a user’s smartphone, transmit one or more audio streams to an unlimited number of receivers, including speakers, hearing aids, and headphones.