I have some Bose QC's, and active NC doesn't work well on speech. If anything, it can make it worse as it's filtering out all the ambient noise and just the spe

I have some Bose QC's, and active NC doesn't work well on speech. If anything, it can make it worse as it's filtering out all the ambient noise and just the speech is left. The trick is to mask it with something similar. A babble generator is very effective at blocking the words people are saying: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerator.php?c=0&l=4600999900999900000000&d=0 https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerat... And for annoying clicky or other odd sounds, this railroad masks them pretty well: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/railroadNoiseGenerator.php?c=0&l=2843557791835541251200&d=0 https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/railroadNoiseGenerator.php... (If you find those useful, definitely toss the site owner a few bucks.)