Comment by fouc
Interesting, wouldn't the MBP microphone be even further away than the HA's microphone?
Interesting, wouldn't the MBP microphone be even further away than the HA's microphone?
> I think the Macbook does some more advanced beamforming stuff to filter out sound coming from other directions.
It does, and that also gave the Asahi Linux team some serious headache when trying to get the microphones working on the ARM MacBooks - the team involved in that had to delve deep into DSP black magic to get usable sound working out of the three microphones [1].
It's more a sensitivity thing, which is related to, but not quite the same as, distance.
HA mics are not designed/oriented to pick up your own voice; if anything, they might be tuned to avoid it. After all, you know what you're saying.
Conversely, I'd expect laptop mics to be highly sensitive to the voice of the user.
In practice, before I got my scripts set up, people would complain I sounded distant, muffled, or tinny, when the HA mics were being used.
It's also my experience that people who use the Airpods audio in meetings = poor sound, whereas when they switch to the Macbook, it's much better.
I think the Macbook does some more advanced beamforming stuff to filter out sound coming from other directions.