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CSR has announced that Q Talk has joined its eXtension Partner Program, to integrate its HushAlert! into CSR’s latest BlueCore5-multimedia platform. Q Talk’s HushAlert! has been designed to address the specific user problem of speaking too loudly on mobile phones when in close proximity with other people. Users will be given the ability to control the level of their speech, enabling them to make calls in situations that they may not have felt comfortable in before, as well as keeping annoyance associated with this issue at a minimum.

Q Talk‘s HushAlert! monitors continuously the speech level of the mobile user through predefined optimal threshold levels. If the users’ speech exceeds these levels, the system gives the user visual, audio or tactile feedback to advise if they are speaking too loudly. The threshold levels of the application are fully customizable, enabling it to be tailored to individual needs of the user.

Due to a high-performance 24-bit 64 MIPS on-chip DSP, CSR’s BlueCore5-multimedia platform is the only Bluetooth platform available that can support a variety of third-party audio enhancement algorithms. HushAlert! is ideal for battery-powered mobile devices through its exceptionally low memory and processing power requirements, and can be delivered on standard Bluetooth audio devices running BlueCore5-multimedia.

CSR claims that BlueCore5-multimedia offers superior sound quality with a best-in-class signal ratio of -95 dB. BlueCore5-multimedia also leads the industry for power consumption and radio design. The radio transmits at +8dBm and receives at -90 dBm which eliminates interference when listening to music or taking a call. When used in stereo headset applications, BlueCore5-multimedia enables industry-leading battery life of more than 24 hours of music playback.