The most obvious way to get rid of ambient noise is to employ some form of passive or active noise cancellation (ANC). The type of ANC we’re familiar with today was coined in 1989 by Dr. Amar Bose ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Your iPhone has a call quality feature that's been available since 2023, yet many users still don't know it exists. Voice Isolation actively muffles distracting background sounds during phone calls, ...

One of the problems with the improved audio quality of a phone call is that you hear everything. By that, I mean not only your voice but also any background noise and ambient noise. Kids screaming, ...