

It would drop my voice for split seconds at a time, creating a choppier experience. If I was talking, my voice came through with greater priority, but the audio would stutter a bit. The PC did an impressive job minimizing the song's volume before eliminating it if I wasn't talking. I put the noise canceling through a tough test, with loud music playing about a foot (30 cm) away. As per Intel, Intel GNA is "designed to process AI speech and audio applications, such as neural noise cancellation, while simultaneously freeing up CPU resources for overall system performance and responsiveness." The Intel CPU enables AI-backed noise suppression, as well as background blur, through Intel Gaussian and Neural Accelerator 2.0 GNA (Intel GNA). The microphones on either side of the webcam use far-field pickup, adaptive beam forming, and predefined personal and conference call modes. The clamshell also has some features geared for video calls.
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Colors looked close enough to reality, despite lacking some warmer, yellow undertones in my skin and hair. However, the image was sharper and didn't have that watercolor effect.

I had to deal with some grain throughout the image, including in the background, even in ideal lighting conditions. The screen's top bezel holds a 1280×720 webcam that's actually pretty accurate.

The Acer TrueHarmony branding, meanwhile, is supposed to fight distortion while enabling a wider frequency range and "headphone-like audio." The speakers employ a magnet to produce a "high magnetic flux, and the system intelligently divides sound between speakers," for max volume, according to Acer, which points to up to 56 dB. DTS claims to up the bass response and fight micro-speaker distortion. The Swift 5 carries DTS branding on the deck to promote its stereo speakers' virtual surround sound.
