Gennum Corporation today announced the release of the nXZENTM VoIP headset, its newest Bluetooth product offering. The nXZEN VoIP headset system is a Skype certified combination of Gennum’s nXZEN 5000 extreme noise-cancelling Bluetooth headset with the new nXZEN USB audio dongle.

The nXZEN VoIP headset system allows call answer/terminate and last number redial up to 10m (33ft) from the PC. In addition, the nXZEN dongle eliminates the need to install Bluetooth drivers directly on one’s PC. The headset can be paired with multiple devices and offers a full seven hours of talk time and 100 hours of standby to accommodate any user’s VoIP and Bluetooth enabled mobile phone needs.

Furthermore, the nXZEN VoIP headset incorporates the noise cancellation technology found in Gennum’s nXZEN 5000 headset. The nXZEN VoIP headset combines an integrated Digital Signal Processor (DSP) which utilizes a two-microphone array to sample two separate points in space.

A custom engineered algorithm in the DSP creates a hyper-directional ‘near field’ pick-up beam to target the speaker’s voice and cancel the signal created by all environmental noise. Users are able to make calls in loud settings where phone conversations would previously have been impossible, all while retaining natural voice inflections and eliminating unwanted noise.