Sony Brings Audio Sharing To Its Flagship Noise-canceling Headphones

Sony conscionable released a large package update for its WH-1000XM6 and WF-1000XM5 headphones.

Sony is adding support for audio sharing and Google’s Gemini Live conversational AI adjunct to its premium noise-cancelling wireless headphones. The features are being added arsenic portion of caller firmware updates for nan 2 twelvemonth aged Sony WF-1000XM5 wireless earbuds and nan Sony WH-1000XM6 wireless headphones disposable now done nan company’s Sound Connect mobile app.

The astir notable update is added support for Audio Sharing pinch Fast Pair made imaginable done Bluetooth LE Audio’s Auracast functionality. With an Android telephone that supports Bluetooth LE Audio (including respective Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy, and OnePlus models), you tin brace 2 wireless headphones simultaneously to stock what you’re listening to pinch a friend, aliases you tin create a backstage broadcast for an full group who tin link utilizing a QR codification aliases Google Fast Pair. Google announced successful early September it was expanding Android’s BLE Audio capabilities to several models of Sony’s headphones. 

Other features coming to some sets of wireless headphones see enhancements to unspecified “system package information features” and support for integer assistants and caput search while utilizing a Bluetooth LE Audio connection. Sony says you’ll request to re-pair your headphones to your instrumentality pursuing nan update for this to work.

The WF-1000XM5 wireless earbuds are besides getting expanded functionality pinch Google’s Find Hub search web including nan expertise to find nan near and correct earbuds individually and nan action to disable Find Hub support wholly without utilizing their charging case, which was antecedently required.