MPEG-H Audio and the Future of Brazilian Broadcasting: A New Chapter Begins

On August 27, 2025, Brazil took a decisive step into the future of television. In a landmark move, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a Presidential Decree that officially launches DTV+, also known as TV 3.0, as the country’s next-generation digital broadcasting standard.

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...

© Fraunhofer IIS / Manuela Wamser

Awards for Fraunhofer IIS Scientists at AES 146

Fraunhofer IIS was honored not once, but twice at the recent 146th AES Convention in Dublin, Ireland: while Christian Uhle received the AES Board of Governors Award in recognition of co-chairing the 2017 International AES Conference on Semantic Audio, the “Best Paper” award went to “Background Ducking to Produce Esthetically Pleasing Audio for TV with Clear Speech” written by Fraunhofer IIS scientists Matteo Torcoli, Jouni Paulus and Christian Simon in collaboration with Alex Freke...