Jabra's new Evolve3 headset range is built for a keyboard-less future, where voice becomes the primary way people interact with computers and generative AI. A study conducted with the London School of Economics Behavioural Lab suggests voice AI will be the default work interface by 2028, and Jabra is betting its ClearVoice deep neural network chip technology will be the accuracy layer that makes it possible.
A Victorian Construct in the Era of AI
In the Jabra-LSE study, titled "Welcome to the Work Beyond the Keyboard," 14% of participants said they already prefer voice over typing when working with generative AI. Richard Trestain, Global Product Marketing Manager at Jabra, is one of them — he runs his day-to-day work through a foot pedal and his Evolve3 65 Flex headset paired with the voice AI dictation app Wispr Flow.
Trestain argues the keyboard, first made commercially viable in 1867, was simply the fastest way to get information into a computer at the time, but was never built for free-flowing thought. A foot pedal paired with accurate voice pickup, he says, is a far more natural way to move into a platform and start working.
What Is Jabra ClearVoice?
The engine behind that accuracy is Jabra ClearVoice, a deep neural network (DNN) chip trained on 60 million sentence examples recorded in noisy conditions. Rather than learning an individual user's voice, the chip is trained on the acoustic structure of human speech itself, so it can isolate a voice from background noise consistently, without collecting or storing personal voice data.
Every ClearVoice-equipped device is tested at the Jabra Sound Lab using hearing assistive test systems (HATS) — mannequins tuned to respond like a human ear — inside anechoic chambers that simulate a wide range of real-world noise environments.
"I could see a future where you literally talk to your computer to get everything done."— Richard Trestain, Global Product Marketing Manager – Headsets, Jabra
Choosing the Right Tool for a Voice-First Future
All three new products — the Evolve3 65 Flex, Evolve3 65 and Evolve3 45 — use ClearVoice to isolate a user's voice in busy environments, but each is built for a different kind of worker. The Evolve3 65 Flex has a foldable, mic-arm-free design so it can fit in a coat pocket for professionals moving between locations, while the Evolve3 65 and Evolve3 45 use beamforming technology with three built-in microphones.
The Evolve3 65 sits above the Evolve3 45 with bigger speakers and more powerful active noise cancellation, designed for all-day focus and calls, while the 45 is positioned as the more essential, all-day calling option. The Evolve3 65 Flex, Trestain says, takes the same design philosophy as Jabra's 75 and 85 models and distills it into a lighter, more portable headset.