German company Sennheiser became the latest in line of audio brands to announce speech-enhancing earbuds.
The new Conversation Clear Plus wireless earbuds sports advanced speech enhancement technology, driven by the chip of one of the world’s biggest hearing aid makers Sonova.
It rocks an “Automatic Scene Detection” feature to detect and analyze the noise level of any environment to set the speech enhancement level to match, while blocking out background noise.
What’s interesting is their transparency mode feature that Sennheiser calls “Ambient Awareness” that lets users set the amount of background noise they want to hear depending on the environment.
”Sennheiser Conversation Clear Plus reflects our customers’ dynamic lives, allowing users to follow every conversation with ease, wherever they are,” says Daniel Holenstein, Sennheiser’s senior product manager.
“An independent study showed 95% of users experienced significant speech enhancement in noisy situations when using the product.”
The earbuds’ app also allows for a decent level of customization, including a handful of listening scenarios you can make use of. “Relax” lets you set the level of background noise you want to hear, “Communication” automatically adjusts so you can best hear conversations and calls, and “Streaming” is ideal for when you’re listening to music or podcasts.
The Conversation Clear Plus’ battery life offers nine hours of listening time and an additional 27 hours from the charging case which is far from bad.
Their launch date and price in Australia is currently not known.
