Skype updated with improved audio processing, noise cancellation support

Have your Skype calls sounded especially clear lately? The Skype team detailed the different improvements it made to the application's audio processing engine in a blog post. It promises "high quality audio no matter what kind of noise environment you're in" by virtue of taking advantage of the multiple microphones found in most up-to-date smartphones. In the case of Microsoft's Lumia phones, the Skype and Lumia teams worked together to teach the app some interesting tricks.

When the user activates the front-facing camera to make a video call, the Lumia signal processing technology ...