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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!
>> https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/what-did-you-say-these-e...
go and look the up the price, they are deeply expensive, even for basic "make it louder" type aids.
Worse still, because they interfere with your ear, you tend to loose the ability to "steer" your hearing. This means that you can't tune out other conversations/noises or stuff.
The one good side effect of facebook spending billions on its (probably) futile search for practical and popular AR is https://www.projectaria.com/glasses/
Which is a (cheap) platform to do experimentation for AR type actions.
However it has eye tracking, microphone array and front facing cameras, so it can be fairly easily modified into being a steerable microphone.
One thing that the HN crowd should appreciate is just how expensive and shit hearing aids are. go and look the up the price, they are deeply expensive, even for basic "make it louder" type aids. Worse still, because they interfere with your ear, you tend to loose the ability to "steer" your hearing. This means that you can't tune out other conversations/noises or stuff. The one good side effect of facebook spending b…
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?
Perhaps the accuracy of identifying the correct voice could be vastly increased by adding video input. The AI can then try to match the various voices with the lip movements in the center of the video, basically lip reading.
I know this is just the beginning and the tech and UX will mature a lot - but being able to consciously choose what we allow into our sensory world would be a great superpower to have.
In the distant future this will all be embedded inside a cochlear (neural?) implant.
You can "save" known voices, prioritize them, identify various scenes/modes automatically like meetings/parties/concerts/driving/walking etc, know when to allow external sounds in (alarms, honks, someone calling your attention, etc)
And with great power yada yada.
I can already imagine a few ways this can be misused / abused / create non-existent challenges and problems too. But I am (cautiously) optimistic that we as human race will collectively figure out how to steer these new technology applications into net positive territory.
2040: iAudio and xSmell blamed for people losing connect with nature's sounds (like bird chirps and flowing streams) and smells (petrichor) - things that inspire us, make us creative, make life worthwile, and make us humans.
aka beam-forming. No AI needed, just good mics.
One thing that the HN crowd should appreciate is just how expensive and shit hearing aids are. go and look the up the price, they are deeply expensive, even for basic "make it louder" type aids. Worse still, because they interfere with your ear, you tend to loose the ability to "steer" your hearing. This means that you can't tune out other conversations/noises or stuff. The one good side effect of facebook spending b…
I guess they're expensive because of relations with medical / health companies being complaint makes things expensive (eg. the same display but with certification to use in a medical facility would cost many times more).