Leading Audio Manufacturers Join Forces

Leading professional audio manufacturers NUGEN Audio, RTW, Steinberg and Telos Alliance have joined forces with Fraunhofer IDMT to establish a common approach to measuring and presenting dialog intelligibility across broadcast, production and post-production environments.

The companies have formed the LEAP Meter Manufacturers Group (LMMG) and, together with Fraunhofer IDMT, developed the LMMG Dialog Intelligibility Implementation Agreement.

Presented at IBC 2026, the agreement defines a common implementation framework for products based on LEAP, Fraunhofer IDMT's AI-based technology for objectively assessing the perceived intelligibility of spoken content.

The initiative addresses an increasingly important challenge across television, radio, streaming, podcasts and other speech-based media: audiences struggling to understand dialog.