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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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Post by RussianCow »

fragmede wrote: post #50
stubish wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

10ms on a wifi connection is exceptional; on a cellular connection it's unheard of. I normally get 70-80ms on 5G, which is well past the threshold for realtime—and that's with a solid connection.

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Post by doctor_eval »

maxglute wrote: post #49
seoulmetro wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yeah I recently lost a chunk of hearing and all I can say is, you will miss it.

Much better to wear headphones than to need hearing aids (also: some forms of hearing loss aren’t helped by hearing aids. Mine, for example).

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

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Post by hfjtifkenf »

gexla wrote: post #56

They couldn't use this to listen to me. They would just get "I am just a large language model, I can't help you with that." I use a lot of curse words. ;)

I asked gpt to translate for me the lyrics of a recent popular song containing the word "puta" and it just refused "I'm sorry, I can't help you with that". When I insisted it just ended the conversation.

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

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Post by gexla »

hfjtifkenf wrote: post #57
gexla wrote: post #56

They couldn't use this to listen to me. They would just get "I am just a large language model, I can't help you with that." I use a lot of curse words. ;)

I asked gpt to translate for me the lyrics of a recent popular song containing the word "puta" and it just refused "I'm sorry, I can't help you with that". When I insisted it just ended the conversation.

Right, it wouldn't help you if you wanted to do something like "overhear" tips from attendees of a meth cooking convention.
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