Technology

Here at Soundskrit, we developed our microphones from the ground up for directionality. To make directional microphones in such a small package, we needed to design a fundamentally new transducer design unlike anything in omnidirectional microphones. With these advances, our high-performance MEMS directional microphones can seem like technology from the future.

 This animated video explains how traditional MEMS microphones work and breaks down our technology to explain how our microphones differ at a physical level.

In order to get direction with traditional omnidirectional microphones, two microphones must be placed in an array and subtracted to approximate direction. When doing so, the effective SNR of the of the microphone array drops significantly. Two 70dB omnidirectional microphones placed 10mm apart loose 17dB of SNR!

Soundskrit maintains high SNR while providing directionality in just a single microphone. With over 10dB more SNR than than market-leading microphone arrays, Soundskrit microphones unlock incredible performance for our customer’s devices.

From 20Hz to 20kHz, our first-of-a-kind microphones maintain incredibly high directionality from the lowest ends of the audio spectrum all the way up to the highest audible frequencies.

Unlike traditional arrays of omnidirectional microphones which often suffer from a changing directionality pattern across the audio range, Soundskrit's microphones ensure that all the sound you want to hear is isolated with high fidelity.

Our dipole microphones can be used to replace large arrays of multiple microphones, and multiple dipoles can even be paired together to further increase performance and bring a suite of new audio-based features.

While directional microphones have been used in the pro audio industry for decades, they have always been constrained to having large form factors. Bringing directional microphones down to the MEMS scale for consumer electronics has always come at the cost of greatly reduced performance, such as SNR.

For the first time ever, Soundskrit has developed a directional microphone that is no bigger than traditional omnidirectional microphones found in your everyday devices with uncompromising performance.