Snapdragon Sound
How sound should sound™.
Better together.
Optimize the listening experience with Snapdragon Sound. Our end-to-end audio system supports premium sound every step of the way, from the mobile device to the wireless earbuds and headphones. Experience the difference when you integrate products built for Snapdragon Sound.
EXPLORE SNAPDRAGON SOUND
High-resolution sound makes your favorite music even better.
Hear every detail of the music you love. Snapdragon Sound is designed to deliver studio master quality, 24-bit, 96kHz high-resolution Bluetooth music that streams straight from your phone, thanks to Qualcomm® aptX™ Adaptive audio technology. And when listening directly on your mobile device, Qualcomm Aqstic™ technology means you can play your music extra loud without damaging the speaker on your phone.
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Wired high-resolution audio quality
Uncompressed, the original track is in 24-bit 96kHz studio quality audio.
Standard Bluetooth audio quality
Audio is compressed using the SBC audio codec, the standard codec used for Bluetooth A2DP music streaming that can deliver quality of up to 16-bit 44.1kHz.
Snapdragon Sound high-resolution audio quality
Audio using aptX audio technology is designed to deliver 24-bit 96kHz Bluetooth audio, so you can hear the audio as the artist intended.
Crystal clear voice quality.
Snapdragon Sound is designed to deliver super wideband 32kHz voice quality for richer, clearer calls with greater intelligibility than standard Bluetooth. Snapdragon Sound utilizes aptX Voice to help significantly improve the sound quality when using Bluetooth accessories to make voice calls. With Snapdragon Sound, background sounds are diminished, resulting in a better user experience, even in noisy environments like call centers and other enterprise applications.
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Narrowband voice
Narrowband voice 8kHz sampled audio with a 4kHz frequency response. Equivalent to POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) quality.
Wideband voice
Wideband voice 16kHz sampled audio with 8kHz frequency response.
Super wideband voice with Snapdragon Sound
Super wideband voice quality at 32kHz using aptX voice for crystal clear-voice calls.
Robust Connectivity
Get virtually glitch-free, premium audio even in the most congested RF environments. Snapdragon Sound is optimized to work across your devices and is designed to deliver a robust connection with minimal drop-outs or audio glitching, whether you’re at home, at work, or on the go, in environments where there could be interference from many other devices.
Experience glitch-free audio.
In busy public places you may notice glitches in your audio, because of RF interference from other connected Wi-Fi or other Bluetooth devices. Standard Bluetooth devices like earbuds and headphones are very challenged, particularly in crowded spaces where there may be dozens of other smart devices. In these situations, glitches can be frequent and very noticeable. Devices built using Snapdragon Sound are optimized for a virtually glitch-free experience no matter how many other smart devices are around.
Snapdragon Sound Open Spaces Demo
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Fully Synchronized Audio
Get a totally immersive gaming experience with Snapdragon Sound, which uses aptX Adaptive audio, designed to fully synchronize your audio experience with the action you see on the screen. Snapdragon Sound delivers ultra-low latency of just 89 milliseconds so there’s no lag time between the phone and your earbuds.
Seamless listening experience
Optimized sound
Snapdragon Sound is an optimized chain of audio technologies and software that is designed to deliver seamless, immersive audio across mobile devices and wireless audio accessories. When listening to audio directly from your mobile device, Snapdragon Sound uses Qualcomm Aqstic technology to support an authentic reproduction of the original audio that is designed to support true audiophile formats up to 384kHz/32-bit PCM.
Ease of use
Pair, share, connect, and access voice assistance easily. With Snapdragon Sound, your devices are out-of-the-box ready for smartphone and earbud combinations. And with Snapdragon Sound, your phone is designed to follow the connection to a different device without disruption. Snapdragon Sound works with virtually any voice assistant and allows easy swapping between voice assistants—all without compromising battery life.
Look for the Snapdragon Sound badge on earbuds, headphones and mobile devices to experience premium audio performance.
Discover the key technologies of Snapdragon Sound.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Sound, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Qualcomm aptX, Qualcomm Aqstic, Qualcomm FastConnect and Qualcomm TrueWireless are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. The glitches represented in these audio tracks are based on modelled data gathered as a result of internal testing by Qualcomm.
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