Audio
Our team of audio specialists use technologies such as 3D audio or speech recognition to design and create fully immersive, next-generation audio experiences, as well as testing and ensuring all audio broadcast by the BBC is of the highest possible quality.

Latest audio research reports and white papers
More R&D reports
Positioning loudspeakers in living rooms: the choices and constraints
Paper 374: How do aesthetics and functionality play in the choice of position compact wireless loudspeakers in a home system?
Interaction with enhanced podcasts
Paper 389: How listeners interacted with our prototype podcast player in three different environments - and what worked best.
Designing navigation for smart speakers and voice devices
Report: Exploring new ways to discover audio and interact with these types of experiences using only the user's voice.
Interactive, personalised, immersive
Live Next Generation Audio trial at Eurovision 2023
Experimenting with the latest delivery technologies to adapt the audio to the speakers available to envelop the listener in sound from all three dimensions.


