Subj : Your Apple AirPods just got a lot more adaptive and aware
To   : All
From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Jun 05 2023 20:15:04

Your Apple AirPods just got a lot more adaptive and aware

Date:
Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:02:57 +0000

Description:
Apple unveiled two new AirPods features  Adaptive Audio and Conversation 
Awareness  at WWDC.

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At this years WWDC keynote, Apple revealed that it is introducing Adaptive 
Audio to AirPods. The new feature blends transparency mode with Active Noise 
Cancellation to match the conditions of your natural surroundings. 

Using machine learning, Adaptive Audio will create a more customised 
listening experience so that you dont have to play around with audio settings 
on your iPhone while youre on the move. 

Now when your AirPods detect that youre on your way to or from work and 
theres a lot of background noises with people talking, a new feature called 
Conversational Awareness will automatically activate transparency mode and 
lower background sound. 

Conversational awareness is aimed at making the ambient listening experience  
when youre walking down a street or at work and still want to be aware of 
your surroundings  a lot more adaptive (I can see where they got the name). 

The feature can identify background noises such as faraway conversations or a 
marching band and reduce the volume on these, while activating transparency 
mode at the same time. It's not adjustable but is adaptable 

While active noise cancellation is a feature only currently available to the 
AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods Max , there are only three modes available  ANC, 
transparency mode and off. 

By introducing Adaptive Audio, Apple has added a fourth mode that could offer 
the middle ground noise cancelling that we've been looking for. We previously 
wrote about six features I hope Apple adds in iOS 17 at WWDC and adjustable 
transparency modes was a big one for us. 

It comes down to the fact that the transparency mode is limited to either 
being turned on really high to nothing at all. Adaptive Audio looks to offer 
the solution by adjusting the level of transparency automatically to match 
the environment. It looks like Apple really listened.



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/your-apple-airpods-just-got-a-lot-more-adaptive
-and-aware


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