Instead, an external high quality dual-microphone array comes standard with this card.

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This complete system for voice communications also enables gamers to use speakers and the high-quality microphone array to achieve a better overall experience.

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To support the intelligent audio applications on these smart mobile devices, the Sound BlasterAxx also features advanced Bluetooth wireless audio connectivity and a high-quality dual-microphone array.

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We have designed it to also deliver stunning voice quality with smartphone and Skype hands-free calls through adaptive communication technologies that can cancel ambient noise and focusing the microphone-array for accurate voice pick-up.

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Microsoft, for example, has been developing software that takes advantage of the different times an acoustic wave arrives at each microphone in an array around the screen of a computer.

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By analysing these signals the software is able to make the array work like a directional microphone.

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Technicians set up the micro-array in the same way they might set up a normal microphone.

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