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What type of earbuds or headphones are you currently using? Are they comfortable while still providing excellent sound? You’ll get both with the Ankit Ergonomic Noise-Isolating Earphones with G-Bass Technology. They are VERY comfortable, and the sound is honestly – surprisingly – really good. I know that most people don’t expect much in the way of quality when using earbuds. I’m telling you though… these are great!

There are a few points about these particular earphones that are worth noting:

• Ergonomic – The special curved design of the earplugs fit your ears naturally and comfortably.
• Noise Isolation – These ergonomic earplugs and the metal-shielded driver blocks out external noises.
• G-Bass Technology – Delivers rich sound with clear low notes (Bass) and few softened sharp notes.
• Custom Fit – Comes with 3 different sizes of comfortable silicon earbud tips for all ears (S, M, L).
• 3.5mm Gold Connector – Works with all your iPods, iPhones, Zunes, PSPs, Nintendo DSs, and what not.

For every pair of these earphones sold, the team at Ankit will plant a tree! They also caution you that you should never listen to music with any type of earbuds at max volume for more than a few minutes at a time. If you do, you can cause irrepairable hearing loss.

If you’d like to win one of four pairs for yourself, leave a video response on YouTube. Show us what you are using now, and tell us why you’d like a pair of these.

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Ankit Earbuds Review

This video interview features MSR’s Jasha Droppo:

I have been with Microsoft Research since July, 2000. My primary task has been to explore different techniques to make ASR more robust to additive and channel noise. Other projects I’ve worked on include general speech signal enhancement, pitch tracking, multiple stream ASR, novel speech recognition features, MiPad multimodal interface, cepstral compression and transport, and the WITTY microphone.

I really couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Then, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. If you can’t see the embeded YouTube clip, you can either download the MP4 or watch the video on the Web:

Argh! Release the code, already – don’t make me have to stage a podcaster protest, please? And as if this wasn’t enough to frustrate you audio jockeys, there’s another MSR team that has developed an application that will actually edit out speech-to-text recognized words on-the-fly. You could effectively get rid of all those “uhhs” and “ahhs” with simple clicks. I didn’t catch their names, however.

Please, would someone at MIcrosoft just… put this stuff out there and let us (your users, not committees) decide whether it’s worth pursuing?!

Microsoft is its own Worst Enemy!