Tencent RTC Powers Pokekara: Revolutionizing Live Streaming Karaoke Experience

Pokekara

M&E Time Entertainment is a technology-driven company committed to growing in the Japanese live streaming market. Its karaoke product Pokekara has stayed among the top apps for free music on App Store and Google Play in Japan and topped the app list multiple times. It has been rated a top 3 non-gaming app with the fastest increase in downloads of the year 2019 by App Annie.

TRTC has been serving the karaoke room business of Pokekara, covering diverse scenarios including online karaoke and audio chat room.

Requirements and challenges

• High Quality : the requirements for sound quality are demanding, as many users are from Northeast Asia.
• High Concurrency : support for tens of thousands of concurrent users is required

Solutions

• Ultra-Low Latency: full-linkage latency optimization, delivering a latency of below 300 ms.
• AI-Based Noise Reduction: support from Tencent Ethereal Audio Lab with the same 3A engine used by VooV Meeting
• Audio: 192 Kbps dual-channel stereo and HE-AAC support for stream mix relaying
• Tencent Cloud’s global nodes with local access in Japan, ensuring a smooth playback experience and compliance
• Stream push to Tencent Cloud CDN over the private network, eliminating push fees
• Seamless viewer mic-on/off, enhancing the interaction experience
• High Concurrency: TRTC enables over 1 million viewers in a single room to watch low-latency live streams simultaneously

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