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Some clever new technical tricks may help eliminate annoying background noise on cell phones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My friends seem to spend an inordinate amount of time inside wind tunnels, aboard locomotives, and underwater. At least, that’s what it sounds like when they call me from their cell phones. Blame it on the background noise. Unlike calling from home or a telephone booth, we have little control over the noise pollution that surrounds us out there. It’s sort of like extra baggage that our voice is forced to carry when it travels across the wireless ether. Now though, researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a novel bit of technology that may someday alleviate us of the audio aggravation.<\/p>\n

It’s an advance on current “noise suppression” multi-mic technology, and it sound (so to speak (so to speak)) pretty spiffy.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some clever new technical tricks may help eliminate annoying background noise on cell phones. 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