Noise canceling gets smarter
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YourAirPods Proscould soon stay in your ears a lot longer.
The new software means you won’t have to keep removing AirPods for daily activities.
“However, these processes tend to be crude and can add unpleasant artifacts to the remaining audio.
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Smarter AirPods
AirPod Pros are getting some new tricks through a software update.
The headline feature involves the introduction of separate modes, namely Conversational Awareness and Adaptive Noise Control.
In iOS 17, these can be accessed by swiping downward to reach the Control Center.
Wearing AirPods.Tashi-Delek / Getty Images
Once your AirPods are connected, a long press on the volume slider will bring up these options.
Adaptive Audio, also called Adaptive Noise Control, is a unique feature of the AirPods Pro 2.
Over time, your iPhone learns your preferred volume levels and adjusts accordingly to meet your specific sound requirements.
With its ability to learn and adapt, AI discerns between essential auditory data and background clamor.
It can then remove these noises without changing the sound you want to hear.
For example, AI can eliminate traffic noise during a phone call or crowd noise in a recording.
“Traditional noise-cancellation methods can sometimes miss out on variable, unpredictable noises.
With its ability to learn and adapt, AI discerns between essential auditory data and background clamor.
Thus, it offers a dynamic solution, continually improving its performance based on real-time input.”
AI-noise canceling can be for more than just fun.
Unlike typical noise cancellation, Unfear selectively suppresses only disturbing noises, continuously adapting to the user’s environment.
He said the new Revive system from insoundz is an AI-driven system based on code accessible to researchers.
