Yamaha Announces High-Quality Audio Codec IC for Mobile Devices

Yamaha Corporation plans to start sample shipments of its YMU809 audio codec IC that brings high-quality audio processing and hands-free functions to personal navigation devices (PNDs), mobile phones, and other devices.

The YMU809 is an input/output device for a broad range of audio and voice sources handled by mobile devices, including phone voice, navigation voice, music, video and broadcast.The Yamaha YMU809 offers high-quality, high-performance audio processing, echo-canceling and noise-suppression functions.

The main features of YMU809 are as follows:

• Built-in, high-quality audio processing based on AudioEngine(TM) technology.
• Built-in, hands-free operation and other functions for improvement in quality of conversational voice processing.
• Total management of sound output and input.

Yamaha believes that there will be major demand for the YMU809 in the mobile device market. Let’s wait to see if YMU809 changes the the voice quality in our mobile devices.

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