Audience is a telecommunications company based in Mountain View, California. They are one of the 34 founding members of The Open Handset Alliance. They specialize in noise suppression for cellular phones to improve voice clarity. The technology is applicable across a broad range of consumer products where voice needs to be intelligible in noisy environments.
They partnered with HTC to integrate their noise suppression technology into the Google Nexus One smartphone.
Audience was the Silver Winner in the 2008 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards and the Winner of the Semiconductor category. The company was included in Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Semiconductors, 2008” and selected as the Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up for the “2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards.”