Sony brings audio sharing to its flagship noise-canceling headphones

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

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

The astir notable update is added enactment for Audio Sharing with 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 with a friend, oregon you tin make a backstage broadcast for an full radical who tin link utilizing a QR codification oregon Google Fast Pair. Google announced successful aboriginal 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 bundle information features” and enactment for integer assistants and caput tracking portion utilizing a Bluetooth LE Audio connection. Sony says you’ll request to re-pair your headphones to your instrumentality pursuing the update for this to work.

The WF-1000XM5 wireless earbuds are besides getting expanded functionality with Google’s Find Hub tracking web including the quality to find the near and close earbuds individually and the enactment to disable Find Hub enactment wholly without utilizing their charging case, which was antecedently required.