Sound Isolation & Noise Cancelation Technology

It seems like since noise canceling is just a mic and chip that puts out the oppiste signal to your headphones, couldn’t there be some sort of program for the computer that would do the same thing with a regular mic and headphones?
That’s to mute the speakers. I’m not trying to turn of the sound that’s playing (like my music) I’m trying to mute everyhtign BUT that that is going on in the environment around me (E.G. I sit in a room witht h eTV on and I want to block out the TV noise similar to how noise canceling headphones do, but with software) The prblem is I’m not sure if this is even possible, sinc ehte computers response would have to be instintanious. Otherwise even half asecond delay would be too late.

Most computers already have a function to do a noise cancelling. Double click on the small speaker icon that should show in the bottom right corner of your screen near the clock display. Check the settings there on the mic and the speakers. Depending on the audio programming, you may have a standard mute command, or other commands to do the noise cancelling.
Good luck.

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