Great Voice Input performance starts with HARMAN Microphones

Integrate with legendary subminiature microphones that utilize industry-first innovations to drive a new standard in end-user experience.

Decades of experience. A lifetime of innovation. HARMAN delivers best-in-class microphone solutions to the world’s top consumer electronics brands

We offer stock/customized microphones and assemblies in all form factors and technologies for all types of applications, including directional MEMS. Our design team enables you to extract the maximum acoustical performance from the transducer that is right for your product.

ELECTRET MICROPHONES

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Electret microphones in both digital and analog forms are available with directive, omni, and noise-cancelling elements. The integrated housing is designed to achieve acoustic excellence within the ID parameters. These microphones include our patented Technologies designs which offer unparalleled performance:

Noise: HARMAN has developed μNoise technology, which takes typical component microphone SNR to near pro-audio levels.

EMI: HARMAN has engineered μEMI technology into the component microphone. Our μEMI technology is a wideband EMI noise suppression circuit that is built into the microphone element and stops spurious RF energy from 100MHz to 4GHz.

Wind: HARMAN has developed the proprietary μWind technology to combat wind-induced noise at the microphone component level, reducing wind noise by up to 10dB over conventional microphone components.

MEMS MICROPHONES

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HARMAN Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) microphones deliver a high-performance solution in a very small package for improved reliability and intelligibility.

MEMS microphones provide a high-performance solution in a very small package. This microphone is ideal for arrays, with top and bottom ports and up to 65dB SNR. Our MEMS microphones have surface mount technology that improves reliability and intelligibility and reduces production costs. The Embedded Audio team are experts in microphone placement and DSP requirements

DIRECTIONAL MEMS MICROPHONES

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As world’s first commercially available directional MEMS microphone, this patented design significantly reduces acoustical coupling and echo. HARMAN Directional MEMS utilize an acoustical design to achieve directionality. They provide a better wide-band voice performance, more industrial design flexibility, a less complex system design and a total system cost reduction.

Directional MEMS are offered in two types, depending on the application:

Noise-cancelling Near field (2.5 to 5 cm from the talker) for headset applications with boom microphones.

Cardiod Far field (>50 cm from the talker) for TV’s, Sound bars, laptops, VOIP devices, wall mounted cameras, voice-activated digital assistants Directional MEMS vs. Omni-directional MEMS Comparison

Directional sound is 40% closer to desired source
Better frequency response when placed near large objects
3db SNR advantage over a directional patter derived from 2 omni MEMS using DSP technology
Reduces MIPS requirements

As the world's largest audio company and a major supplier to many A-List consumer electronics manufacturers, HARMAN offers the combined power of the best audio technology with the most sophisticated design engineering.

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