As the march towards more realistic entertainment environments continues, the music industry is potentially diving headfirst into 3D audio. IRCAM Amplify is one player attempting to eradicate the barriers to adoption.

Ircam Amplify launches the beta version of its accessible spatial audio solution By Emmanuel Legrand Ircam Amplify is launching the beta version of its accessible spatial audio solution, offering artists, labels and distributors “to leverage spatial audio technology” by transforming music files into spacial audio content.

by Stuart Dredge Thanks to Apple Music, Amazon Music and other streaming services, spatial audio is growing in popularity: both in terms of the number of people hearing it, and the number of tracks and albums being converted to it.

Talking Immersive Sound – The Glossary How did we come up with today’s immersive sound? How did we create this spatialization of sound that immerses us in an ever more elaborate and compelling auditory environment? It is the result of several advanced technologies, developed over the years. To fully understand immersive audio and its implications, […]

The History of Immersive Sound Sound spatialization is regularly considered as the future of our immersive experiences. But is it really that futuristic? A human being perceives a multitude of sounds, coming from all directions. Even when listening to a person speak in a quiet room, we hear hundreds of echoes generated by the configuration […]

The power of immersive sound Why are we working towards creating an immersive auditory experience? Several years of research into new formats and techniques have resulted in the immersive sound we know today. Always more accessible and more impactful for listeners, immersive sound is actually a significant adaption to the usual way we hear. Cognition: […]

In an increasingly information-saturated attention economy, the transmission of emotion is an essential driver for capturing a fickle audience. As audio takes on a growing role in branded content, how can we differentiate and personalize an impactful, high-tech and sensitive sonic experience?

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In his chaptered video, journalist PP Garcia went to meet Antoine Petroff, Director of Immersive Products at Ircam Amplify, to learn all about binaural 3D audio. An interview conducted by an expert with another expert to experience binaural sound and discover its many applications in our daily lives!

Each client project presents an opportunity to meet their specific needs by developing cutting-edge innovative solutions. Discover here the achievements that best exemplify our expertise, as the bridge between excellence in research and its concrete applications in the industrial world.

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The new creation of the producer and animator reconstructs by artificial intelligence processes the voice, face and mimics of great departed.

With the rise of new technology, as well as audio-only social media, our voices are becoming more prominent features in our world. Ircam’s first steps into research on human speech stemmed from the world of music, but today the applications for audio research and vocal analysis extend far beyond the music industry.

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Since 2021, IRCAM Amplify has been presenting a major annual event, live from IRCAM in Paris and livestreamed anywhere in the world, to address the most essential challenges for the future of sound across multiple industries.

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