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July/August 2008

Clear Calls

Audience, a California-based startup, has made a noise-canceling chip for cell phones that could also improve voice-recognition systems.

By Dean Takahashi

Lloyd Watts, founder of Audience.
Credit: Jennifer Hale

In 1989, Lloyd Watts headed to Caltech to get his PhD in electrical engineering and join microelectronics pioneer Carver Mead's effort to understand the human brain. Watts's task: studying the mechanics of the human auditory pathway.

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