Wolfson Microelectronics plc, today announced its audio codec products have been selected by VXI Corporation to supply the audio subsystem used in the firm’s new fully functional Universal Serial Bus (USB) Digital headset systems; the monaural Parrott Aruba and the binaural Parrott Caribbean. The two new headsets, based on the successful WM9707 codec, support full two-way digital audio USB operation and employ the same cutting edge technology as that of the highly successful VXI Parrott line of speech recognition headsets, thus bringing a greater level of voice clarity to the USB port. 

Applications for the new Aruba and Caribbean include Internet telephony (VoIP) PC to PC and PC to telephone, speech recognition, digital voice recording, voice chat, voice recording and on-line games as well as listening to music and MP3 music.

“Our customers are very discerning,” said Costas Papadopoulos, vice president of Research and Development of VXI Corporation. “That means they expect the highest voice fidelity and more features including stereo listening, microphone mute and longer battery life with notebook computers. Traditionally, these have been mutually exclusive, but the WM9707 enables our engineers to meet or even exceed those demands with the new Aruba and Caribbean digital headsets.”

“The expanding use of the Internet for real time communication is what makes this an important design win for Wolfson”, according to Julian Hayes, Wolfson’s vice president of marketing. “It is critical that we use our technical advantages to enable new markets”. Wolfson Microelectronics Ltd. prides itself in developing very low power IC’s, and the Aruba and Caribbean, being portable products, cannot be tied down by the need for additional power sources.

About VXI
VXI Corporation is an industry leader in the design, development and marketing of high performance voice interface hardware communications products. VXI makes products for a wide range of audio applications, which are used in a number of market environments including the professional call center market; the voice recognition market; the Internet (VoIP) telephony market; the digital voice recorder market and now the cellular / mobile market. VXI’s complete product line may be may be viewed and purchased through the web at http://www.vxi.corp.com and from major distributors, strategic OEMs and partners throughout the world.

About Wolfson Microelectronics
Wolfson Microelectronics plc is a privately held, award winning, fabless semiconductor company based in Edinburgh, UK.  Wolfson develops and markets high performance mixed signal semiconductors for multimedia and communications applications worldwide.  The company currently has sales offices in the USA, Japan and Taiwan.  For further information please contact: sales@wolfsonmicro.com


All trade names appearing in this release are either trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.