Introducing
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5.3 Classic Bluetooth codecs – their strengths and limitations...................................... 128 |
5.4 The LC3 codec ................................................................................................................ 131 |
5.5 LC3 latency ...................................................................................................................... 137 |
5.6 Quality of Service (QoS)................................................................................................ 138 |
5.7 Audio quality ................................................................................................................... 145 |
5.8 Multi-channel LC3 audio ............................................................................................... 146 |
5.9 Additional codecs ........................................................................................................... 151 |
Chapter 6. CAP and CSIPS ..................................................................................................... 153 |
6.1 CSIPS – the Coordinated Set Identification Profile and Service ............................ 153 |
6.2 CAP – the Common Audio Profile ............................................................................. 156 |
Chapter 7. Setting up Unicast Audio Streams ...................................................................... 163 |
7.1 PACS – the Published Audio Capabilities Service .................................................... 163 |
7.2 ASCS – the Audio Stream Control Service ................................................................ 174 |
7.3 BAP – the Basic Audio Profile ..................................................................................... 179 |
7.4 Configuring an ASE and a CIG ................................................................................... 182 |
7.5 Handling missing Acceptors ......................................................................................... 198 |
7.6 Preconfiguring CISes ..................................................................................................... 198 |
7.7 Who’s in charge? ............................................................................................................. 199 |
Chapter 8. Setting up and using Broadcast Audio Streams ................................................ 201 |
8.1 Setting up a Broadcast Source ...................................................................................... 202 |
8.2 Starting a broadcast Audio Stream............................................................................... 203 |
8.3 Receiving broadcast Audio Streams ............................................................................ 211 |
8.4 The broadcast reception user experience ................................................................... 213 |
8.5 BASS – the Broadcast Audio Scan Service................................................................. 213 |
8.6 Commanders ................................................................................................................... 214 |
8.7 Broadcast_Codes ............................................................................................................ 222 |
8.8 Receiving Broadcast Audio Streams (with a Commander) ...................................... 223 |
8.9 Handovers between Broadcast and Unicast ............................................................... 228 |
8.10 Presentation Delay – setting values for broadcast..................................................... 229 |
Chapter 9. Telephony and Media Control ............................................................................ 231 |
9.1 Terminology and Generic TBS and MCS features.................................................... 232 |
9.2 Control topologies .......................................................................................................... 234 |
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9.3 TBS and CCP .................................................................................................................. 235 |
9.4 MCS and MCP ................................................................................................................ 242 |
Chapter 10. Volume, Audio Input and Microphone Control .............................................. 251 |
10.1 Volume and input control ............................................................................................. 251 |
10.2 Volume Control Service ................................................................................................ 253 |
10.3 Volume Offset Control Service.................................................................................... 256 |
10.4 Audio Input Control Service ........................................................................................ 257 |
10.5 Putting the volume controls together.......................................................................... 261 |
10.6 Microphone control ....................................................................................................... 262 |
10.7 A codicil on terminology ............................................................................................... 264 |
Chapter 11. Top level Bluetooth® LE Audio profiles ........................................................... 267 |
11.1 HAPS the Hearing Access Profile and Service .......................................................... 268 |
11.2 TMAP – The Telephony and Media Audio Profile .................................................. 271 |
11.3 Public Broadcast Profile ................................................................................................ 274 |
Chapter 12. Bluetooth® LE Audio applications ..................................................................... 277 |
12.1 Changing the way we acquire and consume audio .................................................... 278 |
12.2 Broadcast for all .............................................................................................................. 279 |
12.3 TVs and broadcast.......................................................................................................... 285 |
12.4 Phones and broadcast .................................................................................................... 288 |
12.5 Audio Sharing.................................................................................................................. 289 |
12.6 Personal communication ............................................................................................... 290 |
12.7 Market development and notes for developers ......................................................... 292 |
Chapter 13. Glossary and concordances ................................................................................. 295 |
13.1 Abbreviations and initialisms ........................................................................................ 295 |
13.2 Bluetooth LE Audio specifications ............................................................................. 299 |
13.3 Procedures in Bluetooth LE Audio ............................................................................. 300 |
13.4 Bluetooth LE Audio characteristics ............................................................................ 304 |
13.5 Bluetooth LE Audio terms ........................................................................................... 306 |
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Introduction |
Back in the spring of 2013, I remember sitting in a conference room in Trondheim with |
representatives of the hearing aid industry as they explained 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. I’d been asked by the hearing aid |
companies if I would chair the working group to develop the new specifications. Everyone |
agreed it was a good idea and the two groups – the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), |
and EHIMA – the Hearing Instrument Manufacturer’s 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. |
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At the time, we all thought it would be a fairly quick development – hearing aids didn’t need |
enormously high audio quality – their main concern in 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 market was currently doing. Although the long- |
established telecoil system of inductive loops, which allowed broadcast audio to reach multiple |
hearing aids only provided limited quality audio, the connection topologies they supported |
were more complex than those provided by the existing Bluetooth A2DP 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. |
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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 |
decided that many of the features that we were proposing for hearing aids were equally |
applicable to their markets. In fact, they appeared to solve many of the limitations that existed |
in the current Bluetooth audio specifications. 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. |
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