According to Jenni Lukander, president of Nokia Technologies, “it is the biggest leap forward in the live voice calling experience since the introduction of monophonic telephony audio used in smartphones and PCs today.”
Stockholm, Sweden According to a statement from the firm on Monday, Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark conducted a phone call utilizing a new technology known as “immersive audio and video,” which enhances the quality of a call with three-dimensional sound and makes interactions more realistic.
“We’ve shown what voice calls of the future can look like,” said Lundmark, who was in the room when the first 2G call was placed in 1991.
In contrast to the current monophonic smartphone calls, which flatten and lack definition due to the compression of audio parts, the new technology will enable 3D audio, which would allow the caller to hear everything as if they were in the room with the other person.
According to Jenni Lukander, president of Nokia Technologies, “it is the biggest leap forward in the live voice calling experience since the introduction of monophonic telephony audio used in smartphones and PCs today.”
The call was conducted with Finland’s Ambassador for Digitalization and New Technologies, Stefan Lindström.
“This is now becoming standardised … so the network providers, chipset manufacturers, handset manufacturers can begin to implement it in their products,” Lukander stated in a recent interview.
Using a standard smartphone and a public 5G network, Nokia placed the call.
According to Jyri Huopaniemi, head of audio research at Nokia Technologies, this can be used in conference calls in addition to person-to-person immersive calls, where participant voices can be distinguished depending on their geographical placements.
The executives stated that since most smartphones have two microphones or more, this technology may be used to convey the spatial parameters of a call in real-time.
The technology is a component of the future 5G Advanced standard, and Nokia wants to obtain licensing opportunities for it. It will probably take a few years for the technology to become publicly available.
