Telos Alliance
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Axia® Altus SE™
Telos Alliance will feature Axia® Altus SE™, a brand-new way for customers to enjoy the many benefits of an Axia Altus virtual mixing console in a compact hardware-based form factor that prioritizes simple, straightforward deployment and installation. Like the original software implementation of Altus, Altus SE offers a full-function browser-based mixer for remote events and contributors, allows quick and easy deployment of temporary studios, and provides an easy, low-cost option for disaster recovery sites. Built on the same compact, fanless hardware as Telos VX® Duo, its small size and silent operation also make it an ideal choice for in-studio use.
A base Altus SE license includes 8 faders and can be expanded to up to 24 faders in 4-fader increments via buyout-style licenses. Customers seeking a simple and hassle-free means of adding WebRTC can subscribe to a pair of SaaS offerings, including a Telos Alliance cloud-hosted Beacon server - Spotlight SaaS™ - and STUN/TURN services available directly through Xirsys.
Altus SE is now shipping and available for purchase through our worldwide network of Axia channel partners. For more information, please visit https://telosalliance.com/altusse.
Zephyr Connect
Broadcasters have long relied upon our Telos® iPort High Density multi-codec gateway and its virtual companion, Zephyr Connect, for transporting many channels of high-quality audio between facilities. Zephyr® Connect SE™ offers the same user experience and top-notch audio performance, but in a smaller and more affordable package.
As part of our Studio Essentials™ family of products, Zephyr Connect SE is built on a compact, fanless, silent hardware platform that makes it ideal for use in the studio or at the transmitter site. Up to three Zephyr Connect SEs fit side-by-side in a single rack space.
Zephyr Connect SE is fully compatible and interoperable with iPort HD and Zephyr Connect, and, like those products, can be used as a studio-to-transmitter link, a network distribution system, a multi-channel link to remote studios, or a streaming audio encoder when paired with a streaming server. It supports Unicast UDP and TCP or UDP Multicast stream types, and natively supports Livewire+.
Zephyr Connect SE includes a single bi-directional stereo codec, expandable to a total of four independently-configurable codecs via additional licenses. It supports linear PCM audio, coded audio using genuine Fraunhofer IIS codecs for AAC, AAC-LD, AAC-HE, AAC-HEv2, MP3, and MP2, and, optionally, Enhanced aptX™ encoding.
Zephyr Connect SE will be featured at IBC2025 in the Telos Alliance booth, Stand 8.D37. It is expected to be available in late Q4 2025 through our worldwide network of Telos channel partners.
ATS V7
The upcoming V7 software update for Minnetonka Audio® AudioTools® Server will introduce several powerful new tools to address the ongoing issue of dialogue intelligibility in television audio and provide an expanded toolset for managing the additional language and personalization opportunities afforded by Next Generation Audio.
The first is measuring dialogue intelligibility, or how easy or difficult it is for a viewer to understand the spoken word in the context of the overall mix. If the dialogue is deemed difficult to understand, it can be extracted, level-corrected, and processed for increased intelligibility before being added back into the mix. The ability to detect voice and extract dialogue also provides the opportunity for more accurate loudness measurements.
ATS V7 also offers AI-driven language detection using Fraunhofer IDMT's (Oldenburg) LanguageID technology. If the dialogue in the final audio presentation is in a language other than what is expected, AudioTools Server can drive next-step processes, such as flagging the content, alerting the operator, or correcting the problem, ensuring a higher level of quality control and a better viewer experience.
Additional machine learning capabilities include speaker identification and diarization, clone detection to determine whether content is a genuine human voice, content detection to help identify programs, genre detection, and speech-to-text generation.
When used in combination with one another and alongside the existing lineup of capabilities offered in ATS, broadcasters can easily and automatically provide their audience with a much-improved viewing experience while making the most of the opportunities afforded by Next Generation Audio.
The features included in the ATS V7 software release will be demonstrated at IBC2025 in the Telos Alliance Booth, Stand 8.D37. Expected availability is Q4 2025.