Audioscenic Implements BeClear technology to Demonstrate World’s First Hi-D® Soundbar Design with Gaming Voice Chat
Audioscenic Amphi High-Dimensional sound with BeClear, technology licensed from Philips on NXP i.MX 8M Mini SoC, offers the blueprint for next-gen gaming soundbar devices
SOUTHAMPTON, UNITED KINGDOM—May 19, 2025—Audioscenic, the UK-based audio technology innovator, announces a technology collaboration with Philips and semiconductor solutions leader NXP® Semiconductors, to demonstrate the world’s first reference design for gaming soundbars. This breakthrough combines Audioscenic Amphi Hi-D® spatial audio featuring AI position sensing with Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) from Philips BeClear. Powered by the NXP i.MX 8M Mini applications processor, this technology enables soundbar manufacturers to deliver fully immersive, location-accurate game audio simultaneously with crystal-clear voice chat—a combination previously unachievable in gaming soundbars. Product designers, product managers, and engineers can experience the reference design in person at Computex Taipei 2025.
Gamers have long faced a trade-off: enjoy rich, immersive sound through speakers or have clear voice communication with teammates through headsets. While headsets have dominated hardcore gaming, many players prefer speaker systems like soundbars for extended comfort without headset fatigue, and a more natural "room-filling" audio experience versus the inside-your-head sound of headsets.
Underneath the sleek design of audio devices that feature both speakers and microphones is a series of complex technologies that work in concert. The core technology enabling this breakthrough is AEC. For multiplayer voice chat to work during gameplay, the sound of the game needs to be blocked or cancelled while voice chat is transmitted through microphone arrays. Without this cancellation, other gamers on the chat would hear a jumbled mix of voice and game audio layered on top of their own game audio, resulting in unintelligible communication.
What makes this reference design truly revolutionary is how it handles Audioscenic's position-adaptive audio technology. Powered by AI position sensing, Amphi Hi-D® dynamically delivers consistent 3D audio across multiple speakers as gamers naturally move in their gaming space — no more sweet spots or fixed listening positions. This adaptivity presents a unique challenge for conventional AEC systems, which typically struggle with moving sound sources. The Philips BeClear solution is specially tuned to maintain voice clarity regardless of how the Hi-D® system redistributes game audio based on player movement.
As Erik van der Tol, Business Developer Licensing at Philips said, "We're excited that gamers can enjoy rich, immersive sound and clear voice communication with teammates at the same time thanks to Philips BeClear technology, which delivers the powerful tech required to prevent speaker sound from being picked up and relayed through the microphones."
The technical demands of this system require significant processing power. With Philips BeClear AEC game audio reproduced through Hi-D® that would otherwise make its way into microphones is cancelled out through an instantaneous convergence process. The NXP i.MX 8M Mini applications processor with Quad Arm® Cortex®-A53 running at 1.8GHz per core and 8-channel PDM audio input delivers the computational power needed to process both the 3D sound positioning and real-time echo cancellation simultaneously—allowing gamers to experience immersive sound without sacrificing team communication.
"This collaboration perfectly showcases the capabilities of our i.MX 8M family of SoCs," said Mario Centeno, General Manager, IoT Edge, at NXP Semiconductors. "The i.MX 8M Mini SoC and our Immersiv3D audio pipeline software deliver the power and speed needed to simultaneously process this first-to-market combination of Audioscenic's AI-driven spatial audio and Philips BeClear AEC in a compact soundbar."
"Now is the time for the game voice chat experience to advance, and Audioscenic is proud to work in partnership with global tech leaders Philips and NXP on this innovative Hi-D proof-of-concept," said Marcos Simon, CTO and Co-Founder of Audioscenic. "Philips BeClear running on the NXP chipset with position-adaptive multichannel Hi-D sound unpacks the cluster of game audio and voice, providing remarkable immersive sound and voice clarity without the disruption of noise and echoes."
Experience the Amphi Hi-D® gaming soundbar demonstration live at Computex Taipei 2025 on May 19th through the 23rd. To book a private demonstration with Audioscenic, please reach out to us at
