Blue Microphones finds big consumer market

For more than a decade, Blue Microphones focused on a rarefied market. The Westlake Village (los Angeles County) audio equipment manufacturer made expensive analog microphones for professional recording studios and renowned artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay and Jay-Z.Then, in 2005, it introduced a retro-looking digital microphone for $99, about one-third the price of its analog models, hoping to appeal to musicians editing and distributing their songs themselves. The new microphone's big breakthrough: its USB plug.
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To maintain growth, the 38-employee company is trying to distinguish its popular digital consumer microphones, called the Snowball and the Yeti, from about 40 others introduced in the past three years by competitors Sennheiser and Samson Technologies.Samson last year unveiled three mikes with similar retro aesthetics and playful names, the Meteor Mic, the GoMic, and the G-Track.This summer, Blue Microphones plans to introduce the Tiki, the first USB mike with software that mimics human hearing.
The idea is to make it easier to hear people during conversations on Skype and FaceTime. For them, "built-in mikes and speaker systems on laptops and desktops increasingly don't seem to fit the bill," said Deloitte's U.S. technology, media, and telecommunications leader Eric Openshaw. External "mike alternatives seem to be a better proposition for many."Rather than build a "dumb mike" that can't determine what is human voice and what isn't,It's a fact that designer watches are currently the image of social standing and personal identification. Therefore, sporting an discount Concord watches to some extent flaunts your achievement. You have no ought to be concerned that it will be recognized by other people due to the fact it can be 100% mirrored for the authentic timepiece. and write software for a computer to control it, Maier says, his engineers used artificial intelligence to distinguish human sound from background noise.
At this year's International Consumer Electronics Show, people representing a handful of brands came by asking about using Tiki for built-ins for cars and computers, says Maier.Blue Microphones may for the first time license its technology, he said, aping Intel's lucrative "Intel Inside" campaign to build awareness of its brand with "Blue Mic Tech Inside" labels on the equipment.