Companies Collaborate on Technology for App-Based, Multi-Use Case Hearables

Ceva announced a collaboration with Munich-based Bragi to develop hearable devices that offer a customizable user experience via app. Target devices are headsets, hearing aids, true wireless earbuds and other smart audio devices, it said Tuesday. The collaboration will combine Ceva’s low-power Ceva-BX digital signal processing architecture and Bragi’s operating system for hearables. The companies hope the effort will lead to flexible products capable of adapting their functionalities to users through post-purchase apps and services. Use cases, said Bragi CEO Nikolaj Hviid, include buying noise-canceling software just before boarding a plane, encrypting communication data for sensitive business conversations, and using headphones to translate from Chinese to English.