At NAB 2016, taking place from 16 to 21 April in Las Vegas, Junger Audio will focus on Smart Audio – an entirely new concept aimed at helping broadcasters
embrace automated audio production, particularly in live environments.
In live broadcast situations, programmes need to be on air as quickly as possible, making a second mix inconvenient due to time constraints.
“If you are taking in a feed from an OB truck, combining it with a local studio
presenter and perhaps also a feed from a remote reporter in another location, you
cannot always assume that audio levels will be consistent or compliant with
relevant loudness standards,’ Junger Audio’s CEO Peter Poers explains. “With
resources now so tight and audio people rarely getting the chance to listen and
improve the sound, the only way to ensure that viewers receive a consistent, clear
audio experience is to utilise a chain of intelligent and adaptive real time processing
algorithms working together. This is what Smart Audio means: delivering high
quality sound in a very efficient way, with minimal requirement for manual control
or intervention from an operator.’
Poers adds that, alongside intelligent and adaptive processing algorithms, the
introduction of Smart Audio also requires broadcasters to choose devices that are
fully interoperable with others in the broadcast environment and can seamlessly
integrate with both playout automation systems and logging and monitoring
processes.
Junger Audio’s D*AP range includes natural sounding products for loudness control,
audio monitoring, metadata management and Dolby® decoding, encoding and
transcoding. Among them are the D*AP8 Map Edition surround monitoring audio
processor; the D*AP8 Codec Edition processor that provides a viable replacement
for any discontinued legacy Dolby® hardware processors; the D*AP4 Vap Edition
two channel voice audio processor and the flagship D*AP8 Tap Edition television
audio processor, which ensures consistency of loudness and sonic “character’ across multiple programme sources.
For more information visit the Junger Audio website.
