Development & Design: The Impact of Microphone Specifications on Active Noise Cancellation Performance

Active noise cancellation (ANC) is a popular feature for consumer electronics headsets, headphones, and earbuds. Designing effective ANC imposes particular specification requirements on audio chain components, including microphones. This article explains how to achieve better true wireless stereo ANC designs, offering valuable insights for this trending application.

Alango VoiceDefender is a new advanced voice enhancement signal processing solution, ready to be used by developers and manufacturers in new on-ear and over-ear headphone designs without the need of an ugly boom mic. VoiceDefender enables noise-free voice communication for on-ear/over ear headphones virtually eliminating dominant noise sources and highlighting voice and speech signals, effectively taking augmented audio to a whole new level.

Cirrus Logic introduced a development kit for Alexa Voice Service (AVS), optimized for smart speakers and smart home applications including voice controlled devices, hands-free portable speakers and networked speakers. With the Cirrus Logic IC and software design, the Voice Capture Development Kit for Amazon AVS helps manufacturers quickly get to market with new Alexa-enabled products that feature high-accuracy wake-word triggering and command interpretation even in noisy environments and during music playback.