If the size could shrink to the size of a small earplug, I'd love to use this as a person who is not hearing-impaired (at least they couldn't diagnose me with it, so now I'm not sure if their diagnostics sucks, or I'm just a normal person and others pretend better that they hear everything well) . In groups and with friends, it's inevitable that you end up in a busy restaurant or a bar, and it always frustrates me th…
I could not hear anyone in any crowded situation. At middle age I thought my hearing was leaving. Yet every audiologist I went to said my hearing was fine. So I found the best audiologist in my fairly large metro area, and scheduled a year in advance (the wait list was that long). After a whole day of tests the audiologist comes in and says I have good news and bad news and good bad news. The good news is that my hea…
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
#422I used to work at Sonos, long before their current app update debacle and headphone debut. During the first aborted product effort to develop headphones, we were looking at a conceptual feature similar to this - selectively allowing people’s voices through the ANC chipset. I don’t recall the exact approach the DSP folks were using (I was closer to the hardware for ANC) but they were really only able to figure out how…
If you read the paper, nothing has changed. They still depend on the target talker not having competing co located sounds or voice.
May you elaborate on what you mean by 'colocated sounds or voice '?
Does that mean sound coming in the same direction as the person they are targeting? Does it mean sound near the person /object they are targeting?
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Oh neat: https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-08/restaurant... Meyer Sound which did the sound install for the space is a long-time well-known innovator in sound tech- for example, establishing vertical line arrays. Years ago the son of the founder was doing advanced space modelling for the best sound (basically, entering the room geometry and simulating with helmholtz equations). I will go there just for t…
I'd hate those stools though. Great to have a non overwhelming auditory experience but if my back is killing me that's not much of an improvement.
They've got chairs elsewhere, just stools at the bar. It's a pretty big restaurant with a large outdoor area, too.
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I have high octane AD[H]D and as my hearing "goes" so does my ability to listen to people with noise around. For at least 12 years i've had to warn my wife and children if they're not facing me when they talk i can't hear them - but i was recently let in on the fact that other people consider them mumblers, so. I have a heard time hearing most people on the phone, especially call centers. Prior to what i would descri…
> suppose i don't think ADHD has anything to do with my hearing loss or issue; I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss that as a potential factor, auditory processing issues are known to something that can be connected to ADHD in some people. (Also mentioned by a few other people in the comments.) Couple of links that go into more details: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_auditory_attention * https://en.wikipedia.…
I did specify my hearing loss.
I use active muffs if i need to hear, and howard leight earplugs and plain howard leight muffs contemporaneously for exploding things. A skeet shooting film grip recommended this after (nearly?) having her eardrum broken by a long tube hitting a tower leg on a set next to her head. Specifically the brand, but also the doubling up if there's guaranteed risk of loud noises.
active muffs are so nice i regret waiting a decade to actually buy some. I'll check out the etymotic e*20** at some point, although i'm hesitant about how useful they'll actually be relative to active muffs.
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I'd hate those stools though. Great to have a non overwhelming auditory experience but if my back is killing me that's not much of an improvement.
They've got chairs elsewhere, just stools at the bar. It's a pretty big restaurant with a large outdoor area, too.
Ah ok. I don't know the place, I have never even visited the US in my life :)
And there was only that one picture.
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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.
Sure but it's combined noise on top of existing sound waves that gets me. They don't cancel out midair, they cancel out in your brain right? And yeah, I also don't trust all these radio waves we have going everywhere and wonder if big events with hundreds of thousands of phones are doing at least some damage. Things seem unlikely til we realise. Like plague spreading through bad smells. We were close but dismissive.…
> don't cancel out midair, they cancel out in your brain right?
No, they cancel out in front of your ears. If you imagine a bowl of water which has waves on it with a small buoy, then the noise cancelling is another wave emitter placed in front of the buoy that cancells out the Waves that are about to hit the buoy.
It's a very physical technology. The amazing/magical part of it is that the microphones pick up the Waves quickly enough for the headphones to emit the inverted wave.
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I could not hear anyone in any crowded situation. At middle age I thought my hearing was leaving. Yet every audiologist I went to said my hearing was fine. So I found the best audiologist in my fairly large metro area, and scheduled a year in advance (the wait list was that long). After a whole day of tests the audiologist comes in and says I have good news and bad news and good bad news. The good news is that my hea…
There’s something called Auditory Processing Disorder where you are not able to able to differentiate sound and it supposedly can develop later in life. I’ve had it since I was a kid because I always passed the hearing tests but every other kid had no trouble listening to music and understanding the words and so on so I put two and two together. Anyway, I have never been able to understand anyone in any loud public s…
Thanks for this. I also have this, but I never bothered to look up if this is a recognized thing (of course it is) and what it's called since it seemed unlikely that anything could be done about it.
Re: AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
#428If the size could shrink to the size of a small earplug, I'd love to use this as a person who is not hearing-impaired (at least they couldn't diagnose me with it, so now I'm not sure if their diagnostics sucks, or I'm just a normal person and others pretend better that they hear everything well) . In groups and with friends, it's inevitable that you end up in a busy restaurant or a bar, and it always frustrates me th…
I could not hear anyone in any crowded situation. At middle age I thought my hearing was leaving. Yet every audiologist I went to said my hearing was fine. So I found the best audiologist in my fairly large metro area, and scheduled a year in advance (the wait list was that long). After a whole day of tests the audiologist comes in and says I have good news and bad news and good bad news. The good news is that my hea…
I share the same trait. Thought I was going deaf as I couldn’t hear people talking at crowded places but my hearing tests always return ok. Great to know I’m not alone at this.
I’m not from the US but I visit often and could not understand this trend of party restaurants where you eat at club level sound blasting all around you. It’s the worst of both worlds, since you can’t talk with the loud music nor can dance since you’re sitting down.
Paraphrasing the great Donald Glover, I’m too old for this $hit!
Re: AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
#429If the size could shrink to the size of a small earplug, I'd love to use this as a person who is not hearing-impaired (at least they couldn't diagnose me with it, so now I'm not sure if their diagnostics sucks, or I'm just a normal person and others pretend better that they hear everything well) . In groups and with friends, it's inevitable that you end up in a busy restaurant or a bar, and it always frustrates me th…
I could not hear anyone in any crowded situation. At middle age I thought my hearing was leaving. Yet every audiologist I went to said my hearing was fine. So I found the best audiologist in my fairly large metro area, and scheduled a year in advance (the wait list was that long). After a whole day of tests the audiologist comes in and says I have good news and bad news and good bad news. The good news is that my hea…
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Re: AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
#430If the size could shrink to the size of a small earplug, I'd love to use this as a person who is not hearing-impaired (at least they couldn't diagnose me with it, so now I'm not sure if their diagnostics sucks, or I'm just a normal person and others pretend better that they hear everything well) . In groups and with friends, it's inevitable that you end up in a busy restaurant or a bar, and it always frustrates me th…
I could not hear anyone in any crowded situation. At middle age I thought my hearing was leaving. Yet every audiologist I went to said my hearing was fine. So I found the best audiologist in my fairly large metro area, and scheduled a year in advance (the wait list was that long). After a whole day of tests the audiologist comes in and says I have good news and bad news and good bad news. The good news is that my hea…
Having exceptional hearing that's almost too good, causing difficulty in sound differentiation. Haven't know that it was possible. Intriguing story