What's new in CEDAR Cambridge Version 11



CEDAR Cambridge V11 audio restoration system


CEDAR Cambridge v11™ is the latest revision of our acclaimed system and boasts three powerful new tools for speech enhancement, dialogue noise suppression and audio restoration. The accent is on simplicity of operation and speed of use. Each of the new processes requires the minimum of setup and adjustment, where possible offering Learn and Auto functions to determine the optimum processing parameters.

Trinity Enhance™

Derived from the CEDAR Trinity surveillance system supplied to law enforcement and security agencies, Trinity Enhance has been designed specifically for audio forensic use. It provides four related tools that, using just four sliders, allow users to suppress background noise, reveal voices and increase the intelligibility of speech. It also allows you to enhance the background if that contains wanted detail. It's incredibly quick and simple to use, and allows even novice users to clean difficult material to a standard that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago.

DNS Two™

A huge success within the DNS 2™ hardware unit released earlier in 2016, the newly developed algorithm in DNS Two has already proved to be the quickest, simplest and most effective dialogue noise suppressor ever developed. In almost all cases, using DNS Two is as simple as switching on LEARN (which allows the algorithm to calculate and adapt to the changing noise contained within the signal and determine suitable noise reduction parameters) and then adjusting the attenuation to obtain the desired amount of noise reduction.

Declip-2™

Declip-2 replaces and greatly improves upon the original Declip algorithm supplied up until CEDAR Cambridge V10. As before, the process identifies and removes most instances of clipping in a single real- time pass but now, with its new, adaptive Auto mode (which identifies the clipping point and even tracks changes in the amplitude at which clipping occurs) eliminating the distortion and restoring the original dynamic range of the signal is as simple as clicking on the Auto button to obtain optimum results. Manual controls are also supplied for tweaking the results if desired.

Host systems

CEDAR Cambridge v11 will be shipped on the latest CEDAR Cambridge Series IV™ host systems running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. It will run successfully on all previous Series IV hosts as well as CEDAR Cambridge Series III™ hardware (with a new video card) running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit or Windows 7 Ultimate Pro. Some earlier systems may support CEDAR Cambridge v11, but performance will be compromised and some features and modules will not be available.

Specifications subject to change without prior notification. E&OE.


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