AI headphones let you listen to one person in a crowd by one glance

AI headphones let you listen to one person in a crowd by one glance(newswise.com)

3 points by smb111 2 years ago | 4 comments

I just went to get my hearing checked for the first time, and it's fine, the doctor said my responses are great for someone my age.

But in a noisy environment - not even that noisy, just kind of any noise at all - I'm functionally deaf. My child was telling me something while rubbing two balloons together and I had to get her to put them down before I could parse what she was saying.

I know there's obvious privacy issues with this thing, but man, it would be great to be able to pop in a pair of earbuds and be able to hold a conversation with someone while cars are driving nearby.

Ukv 2 years ago | |

I'm similar - I feel as though how quiet or high-pitched someone can physically hear must be a largely separate matter from how well their brain can separate out and process speech.

If all the processing is on-board, I don't think there'd be privacy issues beyond noise-cancelling headphones.

phendrenad2 2 years ago |

The non-AI version is better: Using multiple microphones, you can use time-of-flight to isolate multiple voices in a crowd, and separate them into distinct, clear audio tracks.

Ukv 2 years ago | |

This does make use of multiple microphones and timing between sound waves arriving. To my understanding, the machine learning part allows it to work even as the speaker/wearer move relative to each other, such as if you turn your head.