Honor Unveils AI-Powered Earbuds Open Advanced Design at MWC 2025

Honor introduced the Honor Earbuds Open – a unique open-ear design that rests directly on the ear and is able to cancel the outside world thanks to advanced AI audio processing capabilities. In fact, Honor calls this design the “industry's first open-ear 3-mic hybrid active noise cancellation system.” And the Honor Earbuds Open not only block external noise, but allow users to make calls privately thanks to its reverse acoustic system that reduces audio leakage. The user’s voice is perfectly captured even in noisy environments with a combination of a voice accelerometer, 3-mic array, and bone conduction sensor technology.

The number of audio signal processing applications leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning running on ultra-low-power, on-device (edge AI) designs is growing fast for consumer, health, and medical applications. Ambiq has introduced a new solution targeting over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids and hearables that implements AI-powered speech enhancement technology using its latest Apollo510 microcontroller (MCU).

The industry continues to explore the potential of open-ear solutions for personal audio, and Audio-Technica launched an interesting product, improving on the company's earlier experiments with cartilage conduction. The new ATH-CC500BT2 takes the familiar neckband design of existing bone conduction products to leverage cartilage conduction technology, with an improved dedicated driver that maximizes audio conduction with less vibration, also adding AI noise-reduction and filter optimizations.

GN, the Danish manufacturer of prescription and over-the-counter hearing aids, announced their new flagship model ReSound Vivia, powered by a dedicated Deep Neural Network (DNN) chip trained on 13.5 million spoken sentences in various languages and with varied vocal effort, across 3.9 million tuned sound parameters, that spotlights speech and eliminates distracting noise. The new AI powered hearing aids expand GN’s range of Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast-enabled solutions.

iZotope, now a part of Native Instruments, announced RX 11, the latest version of the famous audio repair and forensics suite, now featuring new machine learning tools for tackling noise, and loudness management tools for music streaming. The new software update combines the power of visual-based spectral editing with new intelligent real-time dialogue isolation and music repair features, plus new purpose-built tools for fixing and polishing audio.

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving landscape of the modern workplace, effective communication is the cornerstone of productivity and collaboration. Dell Technologies is meeting those challenges with new headset designs that combine the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve hybrid work and the overall employee experience with noise canceling, reliable communications and improved comfort. And they are not as ugly as a Dell laptop.

BdSound and Vivoka, two European pioneers in voice technology, announced a strategic partnership to reshape the landscape of voice assistants. Through this collaboration, BdSound will leverage Vivoka's development framework allowing users to high-level construct tailored voice assistants. And BdSound's audio and speech processing technology will become an integral part of the acoustic front-end tools offered by Vivoka, promising to make voice assistants more accessible and customizable than ever before.

Sony Electronics unveiled its new INZONE Buds, new truly wireless gaming earbuds with ANC, the new INZONE H5 gaming headset, and a black color option for the INZONE H9 headset. The new designs expand the well-received INZONE gaming design, packed with technology and all models are Bluetooth LE Audio-ready. The new INZONE Buds offer both PC and console gamers a low latency gaming experience using a USB transceiver, personalized sound, and up to 12 hours of battery life.