Thanks to earbuds, folks can take calls anyplace, whereas doing something. The drawback: these on the opposite finish of the decision can hear all of the background noise, too, whether or not it’s the roommate’s vacuum cleaner or neighboring conversations at a café.
Now, work by a trio of graduate college students on the University of Washington, who spent the pandemic cooped up collectively in a loud condo, lets these on the opposite finish of the decision hear simply the speaker — reasonably than all the encircling sounds.
Users discovered that the system, dubbed “ClearBuds” — introduced final month on the ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services — improved background noise suppression significantly better than a commercially obtainable various.
AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz caught up with the workforce at ClearBuds to debate the unlikely pandemic-time origin story behind a expertise that guarantees to make calls clearer and simpler, wherever we go.
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