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by polartx 754 days ago
About once a year I waste about a day shopping for earbuds that would allow me to work in a noisy environment without projecting that noise into my phone calls/conference calls. Never found an adequate product.

Seems like noise cancelling has been solved for the listener (isolation + ANC) but I would sure love a hardware/software combo to come along and allow me to work truly remotely by blocking out noise/isolating my voice to the recipient.
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xtracto 754 days ago
I use HyperX Cloud gaming headset for my work. Several years ago we bought them for our employees at a noisy "open office" environment (full of Mexicans, and you may know that we tend to be pretty noisy haha) and they worked pretty well (they have this microphone that extends from the headphones can be moved up or down).

Apparently the microphone has noise cancelling [1], and it seems to work pretty well. Nowadays at home, I've been in calls where my wife is using the blender at high speed, I get annoyed by it, but none of my colleagues hear it (between the headset NC and Google Meet's NC apparently it works pretty well)

[1] https://hyperx.com/products/hyperx-cloud-iii-wired-gaming-he... Crystal-Clear 10mm microphone, noise-cancelling, with LED mic-mute indicator

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hearingishard 752 days ago
Have you tried the Meta RayBan glasses? They can be used as regular Bluetooth device to make calls.

Unfortunately, they don’t do active noise canceling for output sound, but their mic is incredible at canceling out noise. I’m not sure how they do it but have heard there is a contact mic in the bridge. Just got mine, have gotten positive feedback from others when making calls in busy environments.

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