A small group of computer science and engineering students at the University of Washington have designed a new set of wireless earbuds that use AI-powered technology to provide a better standard of background noise cancellation during phone calls. The earbuds – which the students have dubbed ClearBuds, an excellent name in our opinion – work by monitoring two separate audio streams from the microphones on the left and right buds to create a spatial audio soundscape, then sending the data to a phone which runs a pair of neural networks to clean up background sounds. The first neural network suppresses any sound that isn’t the caller’s voice, while the second amplifies and improves the clarity of that voice.
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