Bronston:
Ah, you're right I didn't take that into consideration. If the environment were static would you potentially be able to "tune" the noise cancelling to account for the audio alteration?Yeah I've looked at some noise cancelling mics but they are usually pricey and my goal is to blanket my whole house with mics so you can control my system from anywhere. I'm afraid that many mics would likely be out of my reach and that's not getting into most of them if not all being usb, I wouldn't have anything close enough to plug them into. I guess I'm not sure how they would work with something like a usb to ethernet adapter.
Thanks for the info, that helps me think about it in the right direction at least.
If you have arrays of microphones then there are sophisticated ways to do this well, but sophisticated
means complex and very compute intensive, basically beam-forming. Adaptive beamformer - Wikipedia
This is non-trivial tech.