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[Sohcahtoa82]

I had to install Sony's app for my headphones to disable automatically turning off noise canceling whenever it detected speech.

I'd be playing a game and say "Dammit" in response to something and my headphones would be like "OH! You're trying to have a conversation! Let me help you with that!"

Or I'd be on an airplane watching something funny, I'd laugh, and it'd disable the noise canceling.

This kind of automation is a bug, not a feature, as far as I'm concerned.

[xnorswap → Sohcahtoa82]

Indeed, that's exactly the problem I had with that mode.

The fact you can get into that mode accidentally with no obvious way to cancel it is a UX failure.