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

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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.

I asked Claude to help me learn to play a Pixies song on guitar and it would only give generic advice. Even when I asked for just the strumming pattern it refused due to copyright restrictions.

I’m pretty sure a human guitar teacher would have not problem with helping me with that.

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#172

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'm not sure if their diagnostics sucks, or I'm just a normal person and others pretend better that they hear everything well

This is one of those frustrating gaslighting things that is half true in that half the time I also pretend to hear what someone else is saying even though I couldn’t just because it’s not really important and making a big deal about it (ie asking them to repeat it at continuously louder decibels) can get awkward.

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

#173
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It probably should. The amount of ancillary and contextual information required to correctly distinguish between legal and illegal settings and application is invasively high.

clbuttic AI nonsense

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

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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’m in the same boat. My hearing has a dip around the 2-4khz range which makes speech unintelligible in many situations. Otherwise it seems normal and I still hear details in music that others can’t. Using Sony headphones in voice mode helps but I don’t carry them all day…

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

#175

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…

There are these passive directional earplugs https://www.flareaudio.com/pages/earhd

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

#176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Selective auditory attention is a normal sensory process of the brain, and there can be abnormalities related to this process in people with sensory processing disorders such as autism, attention deficit hyperactive disorder,[30] post traumatic stress disorder,[31] schizophrenia,[30] selective mutism,[32] and in stand-alone auditory processing disorders.[33]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_auditory_attent…

Ah interesting, I must have dis or that order then.

Yup I have mild ADHD and as the day wears on I find it harder to do this subconsciously. I need to start making a conscious effort to focus only on the person I’m speaking with and not the cross conversation happening at the same table.

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

#177
post #41

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.

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 describe as idiotic practices in my 20s and 30s, i could focus rapt attention on as few or as many people as required in nearly any situation, parties, bars, whatever. Music venues obviously not, but looking at someone and talking loudly near their ear (vice versa) worked fine.

My hearing issues are similar to my FIL's, who is 50% deaf in one ear and 95%+ in the other. if you're sittin on the wrong side, you're getting a lot of smiles and nods, because "eh?" gets old. real. fast. However, i can hear a raccoon messing around outside, and no one else seems to hear it; also a phone notification going off in the next room, as examples. my hearing "feels" fine, except in the very specific circumstance of human speech recognition. I also have tinnitus sometimes - it comes and goes, and if i concentrate i can focus it to the point of wincing, sometimes.

interestingly i have to turn down the master volume of games when i am voice chatting. any amount of noise from the game will interfere with my ability to process people speaking, especially if the game has a lot of talking. Additionally, i cannot watch any tv or film produced after about 2000 or so without subtitles, regardless of how fancy the "5.1 surround" center channel DSP is.

sorry for rambling, i suppose i don't think ADHD has anything to do with my hearing loss or issue; I should have worn hearing protection more when i was younger and i'm not regretting it much now, but when i can't hear music i enjoy i'll be pretty sad about that.

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

#178
post #38

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.

>and subtitle real world conversations for when hearing is worse or not there at all.

Or for when you don't speak that language.

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

#179
Next can we have them identify ambient noises that need amplification for safety reasons, like the nearly-silent electric car about to run me over, or the bike I'm about to accidentally step in front of? As someone who spends a bit too much of my time walking around on calls, I think selective amplification of ambient sounds for safety would be amazing!

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

#180

Bit annoying that they added ambient music over the demo youtube video, spoiling the one thing you want to demonstrate.

this is incessant and annoying, i like watching mechanics complain about cars, but most of them put a music bed or whatever behind their speech and will ask "you hear that?"

no, i don't, because of your kenny G knockoff playing at low volume.

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