Imagine it helping people with Autism and ADHD! ADHD people have hard time listening to 1 person because part of the brain tries to listen to all other conversations going around.
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
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#42Curious what sort of processing power or chipsets the 'onboard embedded computer' needs. Could this be an iPhone app? Or is this going to require new, specialized hardware to commoditize?
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#43A 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.
Highly doubtful, it's just a microphones and the speakers that emit inverted sound waves.
This is one of the safest technologies I can imagine.
It's more likely that the radio waves from wireless communication (phones, Bluetooth headphones etc) will have negative impact, but even that's unlikely at this point, considering how widespread their use is and no statistically significant link exists.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
I think you are being too dismissive.
We watch ads, not by force, but voluntarily for free services or currencies in mobile games. Politicians can do basically whatever they want. We have cameras and even glasses that record everything we do. V-Tubers are more popular by the minute. People get blackmailed for their online activities, wrong as they might be. Kids walk around with parent-forced app's to track their location and online life. Robot dogs are being sold to the public and being used by the military. People care more about filming something or the documentary than the event itself.
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#45I am in the market but “ The system is not commercially available”. This is a perfect opportunity for Apple.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have sensoneural hearing loss as well and fyi Bose Hearphones do have something a little like this with directional noise cancellation that helps a lot. They are discontinued but you can find them refurbished.
My phonak HAs have some directional noise cancellation (or biasing at least; I don't have rigorous definitions for these terms)... It helps but isn't great. Has a problem that I think the AI headphones wouldn't solve either: in a (non-quiet) group setting you still need to anticipate who's going to speak when and look at them for best results. The direction bit is just biasing to preferring forward stuff (via two mic…
Version 3 will be able to analyse a room for interesting conversation and then control where you are looking via neuralink.
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#48How does it solve the problem of humans being able to detect that someone's looking at us? We tend to stop talking when we sense someone's staring at us.
That’s just…. Weird. Conversation couldn’t exist if we were like that, nor would any form of public address.
The only behavior close to that I can think of is when someone is looking at someone expectantly, and trying to break in.
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#49A 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.
I thought so, but I live in pretty quiet neighbourhood with ~8 hours of ANC which enables quietter playback volume, versus growing up in a very loud metropolis where bustle was non stop and blasting headphones in before ANC days.
TBH at this point, I wouldn't even object to losing my hearing to have forever ANC (hearing loss) and turning up the hearing aid.
E: no offense to those with hearing loss in this thread
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#50As 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.
How much latency is acceptable? If you're off in the woods somewhere far from the cloud, sure, but it's less than 10ms to ping Google.com for me, and if the speech-to-text engine runs faster than realtime, I don't see why processing remotely is a problem. 10 ms is nothing.
Still, the transcription part is already here today. The Google Translate app has a transcribe app that does this (runs locally; does not do magic AI "pick voice out from crowd"). My father-in-law has been using it for years. When I'm in a loud environment, the app I use on iOS is called Big, which just displays large text on the screen.