The AirPods Pro have positioned themselves as one of the star gifts this Christmas. However, Apple did not anticipate that the influx of users who wanted its latest headphones would be such. Innovation and research into product improvement make buyers fall in love with new devices. A few days ago, we learned that the Cupertino had patented a augmented intelligent audio system. This technology would be aimed at simulating work spaces with people totally distant from each other to improve their quality.
Will we ever see this smart audio system?
The patent granted to Apple by the United States Patent and Trademark Office is named "Pro Headphones for Audio Work Conferences". In the patent we can see the reason for it by means of a small explanation. It turns out that work calls sometimes have a large number of people and each one in a part of the world. However, many users do not use the cameras to make video calls and, using voice, is sometimes difficult to know who is speaking.
Therefore, one of the objectives that Apple had with this patent was to know how to locate who was speaking both spatially and in the way they speak. For this they have proposed a smart audio system based on the analysis of the audio input of all participants. In addition, you can preset a location, such as a meeting room, and place each person in place. In this way, when a person speaks, it will sound differently depending on the distance that person is from us and where we are looking as participants.
El place where the call takes place They can be determined jointly and depending on the place chosen, they will have different characteristics. Such as the reverberation in a church, the confined space of a conference room, the echo in an empty office, etc. Apple will use the technology of some headphones pro to analyze the situation in which each one finds himself to reach a consensus of all the participants automatically.