AmpMe plans to kill Bluetooth speakers by syncing music between smartphones | VentureBeat
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Smart speakers and stereos aren’t the only way to get a party started. AmpMe has an app that makes it possible to sync and play music through smartphones or Bluetooth speakers. Today AmpMe announced it will begin to roll out the use of ultrasonic inaudible sounds to sync multiple devices, detect latency, and power its technology that tethers smartphones and Bluetooth speakers to play the same music all at once. The tone is sounded to measure distance between devices and also uses a device’s microphone to determine the amount of time between when a person presses play and when their phone actually begins to play music. That data is used to train predictive algorithms that guess delay down to the millisecond based on factors such as make and model of a smartphone or whether the device has cellular coverage or Wi-Fi. AmpMe launched in
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