PERSONAL COMPUTERS

As the Internet delivers more applications to the desktop, corporate and home office environments are evolving to include more speech-driven communications applications. Voice-enabled e-mail, Internet telephony and videoconferencing will only increase in acceptance and become standard ways of linking people and offices. Through the incorporation of innovative and highly scaleable and embeddable digital audio technologies, Andrea Electronics has developed far-field microphone solutions which provide users with an extremely natural communications experience by allowing the user to be at distance from the desktop.

In a videoconferencing setting, Andrea DFTA software has the ability to detect the presence of a voice, determine its direction and follow and track it when it moves. These unique speech detection algorithms provide direction and steer the videoconferencing camera toward the speaker. This highly accurate and intelligent microphone beam-forming solution dramatically reduces background noise and transmits only a clear voice signal. Used with Andrea Electronics’ EchoStop echo cancellation software, a complete audio clarity and highly accurate tracking solution enables a more natural sounding full duplex videoconferencing experience.

In addition to its digital audio software, the Company also offers a complete line of Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) and Noise Canceling (NC) PC headsets for voice applications in which a headset is desired, such as with wearable PCs and in call center environments.