Sentences with phrase «consumer speaker manufacturer»

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Aperion Audio, a direct - to - consumer manufacturer of award - winning home audio and home theater speakers, this week announced its newest addition to the Bravus line of subwoofers, the Bravus 8A.

Be prepared for plenty more smart speakers to come though: technology company Qualcomm has unveiled something called a «Smart Audio Platform», which it hopes will give consumer - tech manufacturers a running start making these kinds of devices.

Smart speakers are a growing market and it's no surprise Samsung — one of the world's largest consumer technology manufacturers — is having a go.

Qualcomm says that the Smart Audio Platform with Cortana support is expected to be available in the first half of this year, but since this is aimed at manufacturers and not consumers directly, smart speakers likely won't launch for consumers to pick up until the second half of the year as manufacturers will need time to work with the platform before they can develop and produce products to sell.

The latest report is in line with recent predictions that IoT devices such as smart speakers are likely to become significantly more expensive in the coming years as their growing power requirements push manufacturers into equipping them with more capable hardware, thus making them less reliant on cloud processing but also increasing their production costs which will be passed on to consumers.