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Re:AirPods with Wireless Charging Case by zachberger on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:14PM (#19443654)
Sure it is, most phones have outstanding ambient noise cancellation, something that AirPods does not seem to have.
Re:AirPods with Wireless Charging Case by sa1 on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:36PM (#19444625)
Ambient noise cancellation is not the same thing. Most headphones do it passively by having a closed-back design. It blocks noise from reaching your ears, not the microphone.

Active noise cancellation is not the same thing either. See https://krisp.ai/ for what you really need, and this is not something best done at the physical device level.

Re:AirPods with Wireless Charging Case by ericd on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:47PM (#19445459)
Pretty sure they're referring to ambient noise cancellation using the microphones to make it so the background noise doesn't come through your microphone to the other participants while on a call.