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connected isochronous streams
broadcast isochronous streams
isoal the isochronous adaptation layer
chapter lc latency and qos
introduction
codecs and l atency
classic bluetooth codecs their strengths and limitations
the lc codec
lc latenc y
quality of service qos
audio quality
multi channel lc audio
additional codecs
chapter cap and csips
csips the coordinated set identification profile and service
cap the common audio profile
chapter setting up unicast audio streams
pacs the published audio capabilities service
ascs the audio stream control service
bap the basic audio profile
configuring an ase and a cig
handling missing acceptors
preconfiguring cises
who s in charge
chapter setting up and using broadcast audio streams
setting up a broadcast source
starting a broadcast audio stream
receiving broadcast audio streams
the broadcast reception user experience
bass the broadcast audio scan service
commanders
broadcastcode s
receiving broadcast audio streams with a commander
handovers between broadcast and unicast
presentation delay setting values for broadcast
chapter telephony and media control
terminology and generic tbs and mcs features
control topologies
tbs an d ccp
mcs and mcp
chapter volume audio input and microphone control
volume and input control
volume control service
volume offset control service
audio input control service
putting the volume controls together
microphone control
a codicil on terminology
chapter top level bluetooth le audio profiles
haps the hearing access profile and service
tmap the telephony and media audio profile
public broadcast profile
chapter bluetooth le audio applications
changing the way we acquire and consume audio
broadcast for all
tvs and broadcast
phone s and broadcast
audio sharing
personal communication
market development and notes for developers
chapter glossary and concordances
abbreviations and initialisms
bluetooth le audio specifications
procedures in bluetooth le audio
bluetooth le audio characteristics
bluetooth le audio terms
introduction
back in the spring of i remember sitting in a conference room in trondheim with
representatives of the hearing aid industry as they explain ed to the bluetooth board of
directors why they should commit time and effort to develop a bluetooth low energy
specification that would support the streaming of audio id been asked by the hearing aid
companies if i would chair the working group to devel op the new specifications everyone
agreed it was a good idea and the two groups the bluetooth s pecial interest group s ig
and ehima the hearing instrument manufacturers association the trade body
representing the industry signed a memorandum of understanding to start work on a new
specification to support audio over bluetooth low energy
at the time we all thought it would be a fairly quick development hearing aids didnt need
enormously high audio quality their main concern i n terms of bluetooth technology was to
minimise power consumption what none of us had realised at the time was that the
technology and use cases that had been developed by the hearing aid industry were quite a
long way ahead of what the consumer audio ma rket was currently doing although t he long
established telecoil system of inductive loops which allowed broadcast audio to reach multiple
hearing aids only provided l imited quality audio the connection topologies they supported
were more complex than t hose provided by the existing bluetooth adp and hfp audio
profiles in addition the power management techniques and optimisations used in hearing
aids gave battery lives that were an order of magnitude greater than those in similarly sized
consumer products
over the next twelve months as we developed functional requirements documents more and
more of the traditional audio and silicon companies came to look at what we were doing and
decid ed that many of the feature s that we were proposing for hearing aids were equally
applicable to their markets in fact they appeared to solve many of the limitations that exist ed
in the current bluetooth audio specif ications as a result the requirements list grew and the
small hearing aid project evolved into the largest single specification development that the
bluetooth sig has ever done culminating in what is now collectively known as bluetooth le
audio
its h ard to believe that the journey has taken eight years at the end of it we have produced
two major revisions to the core specification introduced a completely new high efficiency