It makes digital signal processors, analog and mixed-signal circuits and algorithms for voice isolation and noise suppression.

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The Dual Mic Noise Suppression technology reduces the interference from ambient sound and offers crystal-clear conversations even in noisy places.

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The earSmart eS515 Smart Sound Processor features the world's first two-microphone 48 KHz noise suppression implementation for the recording of clean, HD audio.

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Ironically, whereas stills are handled with little noise reduction by the Arc's software, there's clearly a very aggressive noise suppression algorithms at work when it comes to video.

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Current research in audio processing includes noise suppression and continuous speech recognition, which can be applied as much to cell phones as to voice-controlled telematic devices in vehicles.

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In addition to continuing to provide the audio codec chip for the iPhone, he thinks the company also scored wins with a low power codes DSP chips for noise suppression, noise cancellation and echo cancellation, as well as an audio amplifier.

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From what we can hear, the One X has excellent noise suppression, but that also became a double-edged sword as we moved to about two meters away from the phone -- the aggressive suppression started to interfere with our voice and therefore made it hard to interpret the distant speech.

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And, thanks to noise-suppression technology, it won't generate the sonic boom that prevents the big bird from landing in cities like Tokyo.

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