Data Embedding with AudioKey ™

Whether you distribute music by traditional broadcast, on-line download, webcast, CD or DVD, AudioKey ™ gives you the confidence that you can control, track, promote, and enhance the value of your valuable digital assets. It uses psychoacoustic models of human hearing to provide truly imperceptible watermarks. AudioKey ™ is the ideal tool for copy and copyright protection. In addition, it provides one-to-one persistent links between you and your customers. Cognicity's AudioKey adds "intelligence" to your audio clips.

AudioKey ™ will transparently embed the data you select into the audio signal itself. Once embedded, this information will survive music editing, production, format conversion (including D/A and A/D conversions), compression, streaming, broadcast, etc. By using the free extraction reader, you can designate whether the embedded information is for public or private use. In the end, you and your channel partners have complete control over what information is embedded and extracted within your digital assets.

With AudioKey ™, you can rest assured that your copy control and copyright protection information is permanently etched in your music while preserving its quality. It can also restrict access to your clips to a specific user, group of users or for a defined period of time.

AudioKey ™ can help you generate additional revenue. It provides a persistent link between you and your listeners regardless of how the music reaches them. Using embedded data and our web services, you can provide your listeners with just-in-time promotional information that is matched to their individual profiles and your latest marketing efforts.

Beyond copy and copyright protection and persistent links, AudioKey can embed other information in an audio clip, such as: ISRC\ISWC identifiers, asset tags for audio as it moves in and out of production and media asset management systems (“tag in, stamp out”), hyperlink to order page with UPC number, advertising messages, transaction audit trails, automated monitoring, tamper detection, transcripts, lyrics, background information, promotion details, etc.

AudioKey ™ sets the new standard for audio digital watermarking by providing true “golden ears” transparency, unmatched embed data capacity, overall robustness, the flexibility of supporting all popular compression schemes, and the only solution to provide “universal embedding” across audio, video and image data types.

General Capabilities

• Flawless Quality – “Golden ears” have independently tested AudioKey ™ and verified that it offers truly inaudible and transparent data embedding at all data rates (Red Book Audio down to 16 kbps).
• Robustness – Data embedded with AudioKey ™ survives all popular compression schemes (e.g., AC-3 Dolby Digital, MP3, AAC, e-PAC, RealNetworks, etc.) down to 16 kbps, format, sampling rate and D/A – A/D conversions, time scaling, equalization, downmixing, etc.
• Streaming Support - AudioKey ™ provides data embedding solutions that support all popular streaming solutions, such as those offered by RealNetworks, Lucent and Microsoft. In particular, Cognicity is working closely with the industry streaming leader, RealNetworks, to deliver the only watermarking solution that works with the new G2 Platform.
• Capacity - AudioKey ™ supplies two (2) passes (or layers), up to 21 bits per second per pass (total of 42 bits per second).
• Batch and Job Processing – automatic embedding and extracting of one to hundreds of files. With the option of simplified auto-naming of files for greater productivity.
• Keys - ability to define keys, making passes either Public or Private. Free text or file based keys.
• Cross Platform - Win32 and Mac versions. Supports native uncompressed WAV and AIFF.
• Solution Packaging - AudioKey ™ will be available as a standalone desktop application, a server solution and a plug-in for popular digital audio streaming, editing and encoding products. The inline server solution allows for the automated workflow processing required by real-time embedding applications.
• Universal Solution – AudioKey ™ is part of UniKey ™ , a universal data embedding solution for audio, video and image. UniKey ™ includes ImageKey ™ and VideoKey ™ in addition to AudioKey ™. Using a single universal embedding server and client reader for all data types is ideal for publishers and users.

About Cognicity, Inc.

Cognicity, Inc., based in Minneapolis, MN, is committed to providing industry leading content management tools to help customers “maximize the value of their digital assets”. Its first tools will enable content owners to embed data into non-text multimedia data types (audio, image & video), giving them greater control over their digital assets. For additional details, a “White Paper on Data Embedding” is available for your review from our website.
Cognicity can be found at www.cognicity.com.

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