So this is what AI on a phone is for—letting you make clearer calls.
At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit today, the company showed off a cool feature of its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset that completely eliminates noise from the background of a phone or video call, without giving the call a compressed or computery sound. Phone makers have worked on noise cancellation for decades now. It used to be a major part of my review process. Nowadays, phone makers primarily use multiple microphones on a device to figure out which audio is coming from the person holding the phone and which audio isn’t, and then they cancel the audio that isn’t.
