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Fraunhofer Partner Starwaves Launches Android SoftRadio App for DRM & DAB+

Starwaves debuted the full-featured dual-standard version of its popular SoftRadio App for DRM & DAB+ at IBC 2025.

September 13, 2025
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The Future of TV Audio at KOBA 2019

For the broadcast industry in South Korea, 2017 was an important year. South Korea became the world’s first country to launch a terrestrial UHD TV system based on the ATSC 3.0 standard. The new service not only introduced UHD resolution on the video side, but also significant innovations for audio, as MPEG-H Audio, a next generation audio codec, had been selected for the South Korean system.

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Work at Fraunhofer IIS

Our motto "Behind the sound" also includes a look behind the scenes of Fraunhofer IIS every now and then: in a short video about work and career at our institute, our colleague Max Neuendorf, heading the group Audio and Speech Coding, introduces the xHE-AAC technology, which he is working on, and also gives an insight into the benefits of being a Fraunhofer IIS employee (in German; English subtitles available).