Audio Analytic

The firm’s core business revolves around licensing its proprietary sound recognition software to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and chip companies in the smart home and consumer electronics sectors. Its technology is designed to be embedded directly into devices, enabling them to interpret contextual information from their acoustic environment. This allows products like smart speakers, video doorbells, smartphones, and hearables to identify specific sounds such as breaking glass, smoke alarms, a baby crying, or a dog barking and trigger an appropriate action or alert. The business model operates on a cloudless, edge-based AI approach, meaning all processing occurs on the device itself, which is a crucial selling point for privacy and efficiency.

Audio Analytic's main product is its software framework, which has been offered in different versions like ai3™ for a wide range of devices and ai3-nano™ for power-constrained products like true wireless earbuds. This software is delivered as a comprehensive SDK with libraries, reference implementations, and debugging tools. The accuracy of its software is powered by two key internal assets: Alexandria™, one of the world's largest commercially-usable audio datasets for machine learning, and AuditoryNET™, a highly optimized deep neural network for sound recognition. In November 2022, Audio Analytic was acquired by Meta and joined its Reality Labs division to contribute to the development of AR and VR technology by making virtual sounds more realistic.