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by atanasi 30 days ago
Airpods use AAC-ELD for better microphone quality. While the codec is an open standard, activating it with Airpods is proprietary.
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Interesting! It reads to me like Apple advertises AAC-ELD only for Facetime though?

And the alternative, newer "Bluetooth high quality recording" I mentioned in sibling comment is not recommended for real-time communication due to increased latency.

So the situation seems to be more complex than I thought. But I stand by my original sentiment: I dislike the prevalence of bad-sounding Airpods in meetings.