Clubhouse Launches Spatial Audio Feature to Help Chats Feel Life-Like

Clubhouse, an audio-only chat app, said on Sunday it will launch a spatial audio feature to make voices sound as if theyre coming from different directions, helping conversations and virtual performances feel more life-like. The app, which is backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, jumpstarted the social audio trend last year and became known for chatrooms of thousands that included chief executives and celebrities. However, it faces increasing competition from larger tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify, which have all introduced their own social audio chat features. The new surround-sound-like feature will help Clubhouse lean into performances and entertainment rooms that have proliferated on the app. Hear ye, hear ye ???? spAAaAaAatial audio on Clubhouse! Its like surround sound, but w/ your own headphones. A more vibrant, human experience! Plus makes it much easier to tell whos talking. thanks to @juberti for this one ???? rolling out now on iOS, Android coming soon! pic.twitter.com/Zit6F9ijRK Clubhouse (@Clubhouse) August 29, 2021 Depending on how many speakers are in a Clubhouse room and a variety of other factors, the apps technology will assign users a spatial positioning, so that the listener will hear the voices surround them in their headphones, said Justin Uberti, Clubhouses head of streaming technology. In comedy rooms for instance, Clubhouses technology will detect the main speaker and place that persons voice in the front, while the laughter of other people could sound as if theyre coming from a listeners left and right sides, he said. I could hear people laughing and the room erupts around me, Uberti said. You can imagine in music theres a lot of potential. The spatial technology also makes it easier to detect when different users are speaking, whereas people previously might have to pay attention to the speakers cadence and vocal timbre, he added. Clubhouse, which started as an invite-only app and recently was opened to all users, said more than 700,000 rooms are now created each day, up from 300,000 in May. Spatial audio will roll out first to iOS users and then Android users soon after, Clubhouse said. Thomson Reuters 2021 The post Clubhouse Launches Spatial Audio Feature to Help Chats Feel Life-Like appeared first on Patabook Technology.

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