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

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Post by flakeoil »

seoulmetro wrote: post #35
maxglute wrote: post #10

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.

Physically/physiological I doubt there are any issues, but maybe psychologically or sociologically.

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Post by flakeoil »

maxglute wrote: post #10

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.

ANC does not block voices. It's probably passive sound protection in your headphones that causes your partner's voice to sound weak and not go through to your ear. Or plain and simple, just the music you listen to that masks the voice.

The only case ANC would block your partners voice would be if it is about as high/low level as the background noise/sound so that it is all mixed into a white or colored noise which ANC can suppress.

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Post by voidUpdate »

pests wrote: post #44
seoulmetro wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 loc…

Just to nitpick one point, I personally think we've passed the peak of popularity for vtubers and it will settle down to a slightly lower level. Having been one myself, I've seen the other side and I think a combination of lockdown and the launch of Holo-EN made a lot of people try it, before realising it didn't work for them

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Post by voidUpdate »

JSDevOps wrote: post #61

How is this AI? Not just some form of a parabolic microphone

This is using a pair of any old commercial microphones that you can attach to your headphones, without looking like you're from the CIA and pointing a spy microphone at people

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Post by skydhash »

xeromal wrote: post #30
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

lol. My partner and I share a home office and I've worn ear plugs + my range headphones (or my bose 700s) and I can still hear her clacking away and talking on meetings. I'm sure I'm some kind of spaz but god I wish I had something that could completely mute all sounds except my rain sounds. lol

You want iems. The same kind of earphones musicians wear on sets. The cons is that they can be uncomfortable for long periods. I’m right next to a night club and I’m glad I have a pair lying around.

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Post by andrewstuart2 »

This reminds me a lot of https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise and my use of it locally. It zeroes in on voice via RNN which seems to beat most other noise detection filters I've tried. Unfortunately, I mostly disable it these days since it's a bit harder to tune than I'm up for, but it's by far the most promising local noise reduction I've used.

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Post by devjab »

foreigner wrote: post #77

I'll bet they achieve commercial success with the reverse application. Imagine being able to mute that one obnoxiously loud person with an annoying voice at a party!

I think this is the wildest “I guess I’m” old moment I’ve experienced… Do people wear headphones at parties?

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Post by misja111 »

chabad360 wrote: post #7

This could actually be really helpful to me, as I have trouble hearing someone speaking in a busy room because my mind is trying to pick up everything (I think this is because of my ADHD). Having a way to significantly quiet out other noises aside for the voice of the person I'm speaking with would be amazing.

I'm having the same problem, my hearing is fine but talking to people in busy clubs or cafe's is next to impossible for me. This feature would be a blessing for me!

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Post by kortilla »

devjab wrote: post #78
foreigner wrote: post #77

I'll bet they achieve commercial success with the reverse application. Imagine being able to mute that one obnoxiously loud person with an annoying voice at a party!

I think this is the wildest “I guess I’m” old moment I’ve experienced… Do people wear headphones at parties?

No?
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