Experience the Dolby difference

Platform advantage

With a legacy of innovation the Dolby.io developer platform puts decades of Dolby sight and sound research into the hands of developers to create, enhance, and deliver digital media at scale.

Core Platform Offerings

World class API platform

Communications

A communications platform as a service (CPaaS) that adds voice and video chat to your product or application.

Media processing & music mastering

Media post-processing solutions that enhance and prepare content for end-user enjoyment.

Streaming & broadcasting

Broadcast quality real-time streaming to up to 100,000 concurrent viewers globally at less than 500ms latency.

Breaking down barriers to implementation

We’re looking to build a product roadmap that enables businesses and developers to create the next generation of online experiences that are immersive, interactive, and social. The technologies that enable these next-generation experiences are rapidly maturing, and Dolby.io is equipping product teams with the tools they need to succeed as they build out this emerging category.

One thing that sets the Dolby.io platform apart is its commitment to helping customers create the very best products and services. For example, we don’t force developers to adopt our client-side SDKs to leverage our best technologies (although those are readily available if you need them). In fact, many products and services built with Dolby.io can be native to the web browser.

Technologies that elevate the user experience

Communications APIs

Dolby Voice

The first thing you notice when you hear a Dolby.io voice conference is how natural it sounds. Available across all our real-time Communications APIs and SDKs, Dolby Voice preserves the human connection through immersive, crystal-clear conversations so that you feel like you’re in the same room.

Dolby Voice captures how things sound in natural environments and leverages signal processing to enhance conversations across the web and within desktop and mobile applications. These enhancements include improving dialogue intelligibility through spatial audio, suppressing unwanted background noises, and leveling mic volumes in multi-party conference calls or shared 3-D spaces.

Dynamic audio leveling
AI-powered noise reduction
Echo cancellation
Spatial audio
Dolby-managed audio expereince

Dynamic audio leveling

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Dolby Voice automatically levels microphones in multi-party calls, balancing speaking and listening volumes across participants. The result is a natural-sounding conversation.

Dolby Voice automatically removes unwanted background noise from your call by suppressing distracting sounds like barking dogs, street noise, or keyboard clicks.

Dolby Voice cleans up your audio stream by removing the conference output from your mic, ensuring others don’t hear themselves echoing back.

Dolby Voice enables position-based listening experiences that make it easy to identify who is talking in a multi-party video call or 3D environment. If someone on the left side of your screen talks, their voice will come from your left speaker or headphone.

Instead of handing off audio to a 3rd party service, Dolby.io manages the end-to-end audio experience for our customers. Dolby.io captures the audio from your microphone, enhances it using Dolby Voice technology, and delivers it across the web to its destination. Dolby.io leverages custom codecs and algorithms to fix corruption due to bad networks, and our backend is designed to optimize the overall conference experience.

Dolby Voice in action

Here is an example showing how Dolby.io can manage your audio.

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Dolby Voice

Spectrogram showing audio captured at a microphone – conversational speech in a restaurant setting. You can see the high-energy voice components in yellow popping out from the sea of red background noise.

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Traditional processing in WebRTC works to remove some of that noise, as shown in the second image. However, once a couple of people join a call with that much noise, everyone will need to start riding the mute button.

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In contrast, Dolby Voice uses artificial intelligence to identify the frequency components belonging to the foreground speech and works to remove everything that is in the background. The result is a more immersive experience, enabling users to concentrate on the conversation rather than managing the technology.

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Spatial audio

Since its beginnings in patented noise reduction back in the ‘60s, Dolby has consistently been at the forefront of audiovisual technical innovation. Most recently it has pioneered spatial audio, a revolutionary technology that places sounds all around you for a more immersive sound experience. From cinema and music to games and user-generated content, spatial audio is changing the way audio is created and enjoyed. But how does it work exactly?

Spatial audio with manual placement

Unique to Dolby.io Communications APIs, spatial audio with manual placement enables developers to define where sound comes from within a three-dimensional space, unlocking a completely new way to experience real-time conferencing and virtual environments. Individual sounds can now come from above, below, in front or behind, or even a simulated “distance” from the listener. This creates a more natural listening experience for participants.

To get a better idea of how this works check out this short demo video.

Spatial audio for gaming and virtual worlds

Investment in research and development is a key component of Dolby’s success and we’ve been hard at work to bring spatial audio to virtual worlds. Dolby.io recently launched two new features within our Communications APIs, Spatial Mixing and Shared Scenes, that allow you to create complex three-dimensional sound stages shared by everyone nearby in your application. Not only do these features create a great sounding experience, our new Spatial mixing capabilities drastically reduce the amount of bandwidth and client-side compute resources needed to run spatial audio within an application. The end result is happy users who benefit from longer device battery life and stable connections even when joining from slower networks.

Streaming APIs

Real-time Streaming

We believe in taking latency out of the equation with our new real-time Streaming APIs. Most companies need to juggle one-to-many video streams at a time when broadcasting live events to end viewers. In that scenario, it can be difficult to maintain the speed that people are accustomed to, but don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Dolby.io can take your media and deliver it around the globe in under 500 milliseconds while streaming to 100,000+ viewers. And we’re getting faster.

Media APIs

Media prowess

When you need to repurpose recorded voice or video for asynchronous use cases like e-Learning and podcasting, Dolby.io has a portfolio of media APIs to get you started. You can use the Dolby.io Communications APIs to create content and immediately put it into a post-processing workflow that leverages the audio and video magic you’d expect from one of the world’s leading media companies. Our Enhance API cleans up your content and our Transcode API prepares it for delivery in a variety of viewing formats so end users can enjoy it on phones, computers, or even TVs.

Turning concepts into proof-of-concepts

The Dolby.io developer platform gives product teams and businesses the tools they need to create, enhance, and deliver digital media at scale. From music and podcasting to conferencing apps and live-streams, Dolby.io makes your success our highest priority. Check out these showcase applications and experience the Dolby Difference!