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AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them

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Re: AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them

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The opposite would be nice too. Silence specifically this source (probably not your partner, though maybe....)

I would be happy with ANC with a doorbell passthrough. Missed a few package deliveries this way. But maybe that could also be achieved with a desktop notification.

you can enable doorbell sound notification in Android

Re: AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them

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"Just block or mute their account, eh.." would be carried to a whole new level - in actual life!

This is close to a Black Mirror episode. Z-Eyes anyone? Z-Ears?

Black Mirror was a documentary.

Re: AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them

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A potential feature I didn't know I needed. Have headphones with ANC on around home all the time, would be really useful if it auto passthrough my partners voice.

I feel like overuse of ANC is going to come with some sort of physical or physiological drawback soon or too late.

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I would be happy with ANC with a doorbell passthrough. Missed a few package deliveries this way. But maybe that could also be achieved with a desktop notification.

you can enable doorbell sound notification in Android

You can also do this on iOS and iPadOS as well as AVP with support for training custom sound recognition.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-sound-recognition...

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This is close to a Black Mirror episode. Z-Eyes anyone? Z-Ears?

Black Mirror was a documentary.

Most episodes are just slightly more invasive and unrealistic versions of technology we have had for ages rather than the usual "they saw the future".

Re: AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them

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As somebody who is hearing impaired, a feature like this would be a Godsend for me! This feature should be integrated into hearing-aids ASAP! Shut up - no, actually - keep talking and take my money!

And we almost all will be where you are now, if we live long enough.

If you can pick out audio from individuals, you could also send it through speech recognition and subtitle real world conversations for when hearing is worse or not there at all.

But it really needs mobile devices capable of doing the processing locally, as I think round trips to the cloud would make it less useful or potentially useless.

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