‘Selective hearing’ headphones: Hear clearly in a crowd with one look (newatlas.com)
from floofloof@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.ml on 24 May 2024 21:25
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Gerudo@lemm.ee on 24 May 2024 22:00 next collapse

Damn this could help me every day. i have trouble understanding people if there is background noise.

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev on 24 May 2024 23:55 collapse

Me, too. I carry earplugs and that helps a little in crowded places. Communicating with shower buddies is always tough, though. Especially when there’s a crowd.

WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 May 2024 12:55 collapse

How many people are typically in your shower?

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev on 25 May 2024 19:48 collapse

Two to four.

onlinepersona@programming.dev on 24 May 2024 22:13 next collapse

Amazing. And they even made it opensource! I’m amazed at how readable it is, even though I don’t get most of it. Code written by people with 20 years of C experience looks leagues worse than what this repo looks like. Bravo!

Anti Commercial-AI license

thejevans@lemmy.ml on 24 May 2024 23:59 collapse

That’s a non-commercial license. It’s not open-source, just source-available.

github.com/vb000/LookOnceToHear/blob/…/LICENSE

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 25 May 2024 02:17 collapse

Thank you for not jamming the ‘open’ and ‘source’ together like a schmuck.

MHLoppy@fedia.io on 24 May 2024 22:32 next collapse

Cool idea, though I was surprised by the level of fidelity loss in the fountain example. I would've expected that to be a good case scenario for noise cancellation so maybe it just needs some more time to iterate and improve on its level of "false positive" removal.

lemmeout@lemm.ee on 24 May 2024 22:34 next collapse

The video fails to explain what about this is “AI” as opposed to active noise cancelling with some regular old signal processing.

floofloof@lemmy.ca on 24 May 2024 22:46 next collapse

I think once it has taken a profile of the voice it no longer requires you to be facing the person because it can now recognize that voice among the noise. The AI but is taking an imprint of the voice and then extracting it.

SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world on 24 May 2024 22:51 collapse

So, some tracking layered on top of basic beamforming

Numenor@lemmy.world on 25 May 2024 00:32 collapse

I legume so

GBU_28@lemm.ee on 25 May 2024 07:08 collapse

You’re nuts

blindsight@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 03:30 collapse

To add to what the other poster said:

I’m not an expert, but my understanding is that noise cancellation works by inverting sounds waves to deaden the sound. So, like, if you add sin(x) and –sin(x) you get 0.

This system is actively adding inverted sound waves to cancel most sounds. What makes this system unique is that it samples the voice and uses the unique “voice print” to selectively not invert the sound waves from the targeted voice.

Or that’s what I’m getting from reading this, as a layman.

saigot@lemmy.ca on 24 May 2024 22:47 next collapse

If this application is legit it’s going to get snatched up by Apple/Amazon/Google to make their voice assistants better, right now they can’t handle cross talk at all.

BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca on 25 May 2024 03:44 collapse

This particular implementation doesn’t really apply to those situations, there are already existing technologies which can pre-train on specific voices they could be using for that since the target is known. The main “improvement” from this system is that you can train it on any target subject, even with background noise, in only a few seconds.

It’s most useful in scenarios they’ve outlined in their study, like using it with your friend you ran into on the bus, your tour guide, etc.

[deleted] on 25 May 2024 08:17 next collapse

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morriscox@lemmy.world on 25 May 2024 21:08 collapse

The CIA thanks you for your service.