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Noise cancelling headphones really don't seem to be tuned to 85-250 Hz (human voice) in my experience, so you don't have to actually talk louder.
by hindsightbias 9y ago
Noise cancelling headphones really don't seem to be tuned to 85-250 Hz (human voice) in my experience, so you don't have to actually talk louder.
- sitkack 9y agoI have a patent pending that uses ML to read lips combined with aggravated deep learning to generate specific noise canceling wave forms for people within visual range. It can also mask obnoxious follow on affectations like filler words and laughter out of visual range once it has locked onto a conversation. The next phase of research is for an inanity filter, predictions are that it will mute most of existence.
- hindsightbias 9y agoThey have that nausea-inducing sound beam thing. I was wondering what a head-mounted version would weigh. Maybe integrate with an eye-tracker. Or a decibel meter hooked up to some old hag librarian robot that rolled around shrieking "SSSSHHHHHHH!"
- jjoonathan 9y agoHere's a classic from when Silicon Valley made actual silicon: the Widlar Hassler http://www.analogzoo.com/2015/01/building-the-widlar-hassler/ http://www.analogzoo.com/2015/01/building-the-widlar-hassler...
- pklausler 9y agoLet us know when you can detect people who start every sentence with "So" and tune them out entirely.