POLL Do You Have Any Plans to Develop with Bluetooth LE Audio?

Will be watching developments with Auracast closely for use as assistive hearing technology and also for use with large outdoor screens / digital signage applications.

I voted for other.

As of now I don't have any immediate plans, but after reading through the essentials topic and taking the quiz, I'm quite interested in BLE audio so I may try it in a few months.

Maybe. I'd need to explore if BLE audio could be an effective and easy to implement option in a project that talks or has sound effects. 

I originaly had no ideas but few days ago I attended Nordic Tech Tour (EMEA) and there were nice presentation about LE Audio from Nordic Engineers. Presentation included better description of some new features like Auracast including possible future usecases. They shared presentation with attendes but they want to do not share it. So I will not share it even it contains very intereseting use case descriptions and pictures.

I was reading a whathifi.com article a while back.

It's not a great article, the author bases his conclusion that LE Audio is not good, on two main things:

(1) he believes a higher bitrate is needed for better audio, but then immediately concedes that high quality audio can potentially come about with lower bitrate through lossy compression, which is stating the obvious!

(2) he believes that Fraunhofer are not to be trusted since MP3 was not originally great - again very unfair, given that MP3 changed the music world, enabling solid-state players and eventually music streaming services.

Crazy they would write such an opinion before they have even listened to LE Audio!

Plus, music aside, the relatively low latency (in reality increased somewhat due to practical implementations) may provide better voice quality for hearing boosters and wireless headsets/speakerphones and so on. The ultra-low-power is exciting too.

Anyway, although I currently have no plan to develop with LE Audio, I'm excited to see what products and development kits appear, and get to try them out for myself. It took actually listening to an MP3 to realize how amazing that tech was, back in the 1990's.

The LE Audio seems very interesting with some exciting new features. I wish to make my own LE Audio headphone though I am not sure when I am going to start the experiment. 

Start here: /products/roadtest/rt/roadtests/586/bluetooth_le_audio_d#pifragment-4100=4&pifragment-4106=9

3 days remains.

Great suggestion!

The audio for my simulator is hardwired from the audio source(s). 

I put myself down for a maybe.  I recently received the MAX32666FTHR kit for participating in the recent IO link quiz and I've started to play around with it.  So far I've run the BLE peripheral example and was able to detect the MAX32666 when scanning for blue tooth devices on my phone.  Using BLE for an audio application is very interesting to me and is something  I am currently investigating.