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Adding a second microphone to a Bluetooth headset significantly improves its ability to capture speech by making it more effective at noise cancellation and suppression, according to Australian audio software developer Dynamic Hearing. The company has added a multi-mic feature called VoiceField to its Atlas audio processing …

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  2. Pat Reynolds

    Re: This is not a new technique at all

    The only place the word 'new' appears in the article is in the sentence "This multi-mic idea is not new" - so you are correct in your comment when you state "New? Not by a long shot". Perhaps a second reading of the article is in order before you post comment upon't?

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  3. Malcolm Weir Silver badge

    Yes, Peter, we know

    We know the concept isn't new. The article explicitly says that it isn't new. And I'm not seeing the word "novel" used either.

    This is about a development: putting the concept to work in a Bluetooth headset.

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  4. Ian Michael Gumby

    Reading is Fundemental

    "This multi-mic idea is not new, but it requires memory and a fair chunk of compute power to process the audio streams. Dynamic Hearing said it chose CSR because CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia chip has both memory and a DSP (digital signal processor) built-in."

    This is the quote in the article. Granted the technique isn't new, however, the fact that you're doing it in a bluetooth headset is a novel idea.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Just additive cancilation?

    The common way to use two microphones is just to wire them together. So why are they using a signal processor? Are they using a delay loop so they can try mounting the two microphones further apart?

    The more interesting thing that you can do with two microphones and a signal processor is, you can cancel noise at the earphone, to make it easier to hear the conversation. People know about that, but no one ever actually does it.

    The most interesting thing you can do is predictive noise cancelation of cyclic signals - like car engine and road noise. If they are trying that, I wish someone would say so.

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Been there done that bought the Jawbone...

    Check out the Jawbone bluetooth headset, it has 3 mics and noise cancellation and has been on sale since last year. I bought one and it works as advertised.

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  7. Martin Eriksson

    Ummm... not even novel in a bluetooth headset...

    It's not new tech (as noted) but its not even novel in a bluetooth headset. I own a Jawbone Bluetooth (http://www.jawbone.com/) and it does the same thing...

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  8. Anonymous Coward
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    Reinventing the wheel

    Even if there's nothing new, chances are, they'll probably manage to get a patent for it in the USA where the patent office almost seems to specialise in granting patents for what the rest of the world very rightly accepts as unpatentable.

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