Inside Aura's Neural Audio-to-Haptic Transduction Engine
How we leverage PANNs neural networks, Silero VAD, and transient analysis to automatically synthesize expressive .ahap curves from raw cinematic audio.
Dr. Elena Rostova
Head of AI
The complete workstation and streaming platform for synchronized haptics. Drop in your cut, let local AI isolate impacts from dialogue, sculpt frame-locked .ahap curves in a DAW-grade timeline, preview on iPhone over Wi-Fi, and ship to millions on Aura.
Import Cut
Drop in trailer, scene, or stems
Semantic AI
PANNs + Silero isolate impacts
Sculpt .ahap
DAW curves, transients & carriers
Sync & Ship
Wi-Fi preview → Aura audiences
Aura bridges high-end film production with audience pocket screens. Author haptics in the desktop Studio, isolate impacts with local ML, QA live on iPhone over Wi-Fi, and distribute synchronized touch worldwide.
Where audiences feel trailers frame-by-frame.
The dedicated mobile streaming platform for theatrical movie trailers, action teasers, and vertical Shorts. Apple Core Haptics on iOS and precision vibration on Android actuate in sub-millisecond sync with every explosion, punch, gunshot, and sonic whoosh.
Core Technical Specifications
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Trailers. Teasers. Set pieces. One studio to author the feel — Aura to deliver it in sync.
Built for film and marketing teams. Import a trailer or scene, generate .ahap with AI, refine curves, preview on a live iPhone, then publish to Aura.
Video, audio, and haptic tracks with frame-accurate playhead, snap, and curves.
PANNs + Silero sidecar builds category-aware .ahap events from your soundtrack.
Video-locked preview so picture and feel stay in sync while you edit.
Stream to HapticCore Preview over local Wi‑Fi — feel Core Haptics before you publish.
Sculpt intensity and sharpness by hand. Every AI event remains fully editable.
Export AHAP or publish finished cuts to Aura Worlds, trailer Shorts, and scene cuts.
Our Python ML sidecar uses PANNs sound-event detection and Silero VAD to suppress dialogue and score beds, then generate category-aware patterns — explosions, impacts, whooshes — as an editable .ahap timeline for trailer and scene cuts.
Category-aware patterns
Runs locally in Haptic Studio. Output is always an editable .ahap timeline.
Video audio track is analyzed locally — onsets, energy, and spectral shape without leaving your machine.
PANNs sound-event detection and Silero VAD isolate transients, suppress dialogue and music, and classify impacts.
Deterministic intensity & sharpness curves and events are plotted onto an editable Core Haptics timeline.
After generation, refine intensity and sharpness by hand — then preview on a live iPhone over local Wi‑Fi before publishing to Aura.

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Aura is the streaming app for haptic movie trailers and key scenes. Watch vertical Shorts and franchise teasers with sub-frame synchronized tactile feedback — every explosion, hit, and whoosh lands in their hands.
From local AI authoring in Studio to synchronized playback on Aura. Full feature list →
A high-precision end-to-end pipeline — explore each stage from local video ingest to global audience playback.
Drop in any trailer or teaser video (ProRes 422/4444, H.264, MP4, MOV). Audio is extracted locally, resampled to 32kHz, and analyzed across transient frequency energy.
trailer_4k_prores_master.mov
Audio Extracted: 32 kHz · Lossless Float32
Platforms
Author haptic trailers in Studio. Deliver synchronized feel on Aura — iPhone and Android.
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Two doors, one pipeline. Audiences watch on Aura. Production teams author in Haptic Studio.
Aura plays trailers and scenes with synchronized haptics — Core Haptics on iPhone, immersive vibration on Android.
Aura Mobile
Install Aura, open a trailer or World, and feel the cut as authored.
Free to watch · haptics on supported devices
Watch platforms
Pick the phone you’ll feel trailers on.
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Head of AI
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Sarah Chen
VP of Studio Partnerships
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Aura is built for movie production and marketing teams — trailer houses, studios, and post crews who want trailers, action scenes, and key cuts to land with synchronized haptics on phones. Teams author in Haptic Studio; audiences watch and feel on Aura.
Upload theatrical trailers, teaser cuts, action set pieces, chase sequences, or any main scene you want audiences to feel. Haptic Studio analyzes the soundtrack locally, generates an editable .ahap track, and keeps dialogue and music beds from drowning out impacts.
Haptic Studio is the desktop editor for film teams. Import video, generate haptics with AI, fine-tune intensity and sharpness on a professional timeline, preview on a live iPhone, and publish the finished haptic cut to Aura.
Studio’s local ML sidecar uses PANNs sound-event detection and Silero VAD. It suppresses dialogue and music, detects explosions, impacts, whooshes, and footsteps, then plots intensity and sharpness as an editable .ahap timeline you can hand-finish.
Yes. AI output is never a black box. Every event stays editable — regenerate, delete, reshape intensity and sharpness, and lock timing to picture before you ship the trailer or scene.
Aura plays haptic trailers and scenes on iPhone and Android. Haptic Studio runs on macOS and Windows. Live Core Haptics preview works best on a physical iPhone over local Wi‑Fi.
Finish the .ahap track in Haptic Studio, attach it to your cut, and publish through Aura’s production workflow. Viewers discover trailers, Worlds, and scenes in the Aura feed with haptics synced to the picture.
Aura offers free viewing of haptic-enabled content. Haptic Studio includes core editing and AI generation so production teams can prototype trailers and scenes; advanced publishing and analytics tiers may apply as the platform grows.
Open Haptic Studio to author haptic cuts from trailers and scenes. Download Aura so every impact lands on device.