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4 quick stories on the rack · #microphones
6 min

Why Your Phone Adjusts Its Mic in a Moving Car

Your phone surgically separates your voice from road noise in real time. The mechanism is more clever than a v…

SISana Iqbal↗
5 min

How Your Phone Mic Switches Pickup Patterns Automatically

Your phone runs multiple microphones and real-time beamforming to isolate sound, and understanding the mechani…

SISana Iqbal↗
6 min

Why Noise-Canceling Mics Can't Block Similar Voices

Noise-canceling mics kill fan noise effortlessly but let nearby voices through. The reason is physics, not a f…

LPLeo Park↗
5 min

AI Noise Cancellation: How It Isolates Your Voice

AI noise cancellation rebuilds your voice from scratch, 50 times a second. The mechanism is stranger and more …

LPLeo Park↗