MEXICO CITY (apro).- Pekka Lundmark, CEO of Nokia, made a phone call using a new technology called “immersive audio and video,” which improves the quality of a call with three-dimensional sound. The company said this allows interactions to be more realistic.
“We have demonstrated the future of voice calling,” said Lundmark, who was also in the room when the first 2G call was made in 1991.
Current smartphone calls are monophonic, which compresses audio elements and sounds flatter and less detailed, but new technology will bring 3D audio where the caller will hear everything as if they were in the same place with the other person. .
The call was held with Stefan Lindström, Finnish Ambassador for Digitalization and New Technologies. Nokia made the call using a regular smartphone over a public 5G network.
“It is the biggest advancement in the live voice calling experience since the introduction of monophonic telephony audio used in smartphones and PCs today,” Jenni Lukander, president of Nokia Technologies, said in a press conference.
“This is now being standardized so that network providers, chipset manufacturers, phone manufacturers can start implementing it in their products,” Lukander mentioned.
In addition to immersive person-to-person calling, this can be used in conference calls where participants’ voices can be separated based on their spatial locations, said Jyri Huopaniemi, head of audio research at Nokia Technologies.
A vast majority of smartphones have at least two microphones with which this technology can be implemented, transmitting the spatial characteristics of a call in real time, executives noted.
The technology is part of the upcoming 5G Advanced standard and Nokia aims to secure licensing opportunities with the technology, which would likely take a few years to become widely available.
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2024-06-12 11:17:10