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A potential feature I didn't know I needed. Have headphones with ANC on around home all the time, would be really useful if it auto passthrough my partners voic

A potential feature I didn't know I needed. Have headphones with ANC on around home all the time, would be really useful if it auto passthrough my partners voice.

__MatrixMan__ 2y ago
The opposite would be nice too. Silence specifically this source (probably not your partner, though maybe....)
- pyeri 2y ago
  "Just block or mute their account, eh.." would be carried to a whole new level - in actual life!
  - pests 2y ago
    This is close to a Black Mirror episode. Z-Eyes anyone? Z-Ears?
    - latentsea 2y ago
      Black Mirror was a documentary.
      - seoulmetro 2y ago
        Most episodes are just slightly more invasive and unrealistic versions of technology we have had for ages rather than the usual "they saw the future".
        pests 2y ago
        I think you are being too dismissive. We watch ads, not by force, but voluntarily for free services or currencies in mobile games. Politicians can do basically whatever they want. We have cameras and even glasses that record everything we do. V-Tubers are more popular by the minute. People get blackmailed for their online activities, wrong as they might be. Kids walk around with parent-forced app's to track their location and online life. Robot dogs are being sold to the public and being used by the military. People care more about filming something or the documentary than the event itself.
        voidUpdate 2y ago
        Just to nitpick one point, I personally think we've passed the peak of popularity for vtubers and it will settle down to a slightly lower level. Having been one myself, I've seen the other side and I think a combination of lockdown and the launch of Holo-EN made a lot of people try it, before realising it didn't work for them
        seoulmetro 2y ago
        Yes. These aren't new concepts that sprung up after Black Mirror. If I'm being dismissive it's because these things can be dismissed as revolutionary.
- DoingIsLearning 2y ago
  I would be happy with ANC with a doorbell passthrough. Missed a few package deliveries this way. But maybe that could also be achieved with a desktop notification.
  - ikari_pl 2y ago
    you can enable doorbell sound notification in Android
    - aspenmayer 2y ago
      You can also do this on iOS and iPadOS as well as AVP with support for training custom sound recognition. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-sound-recognition-iphf2dc33312/ios https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-sound-recognition...
- surfingdino 2y ago
  Every teen's dream of muting their yakking mother would finally come true.
- bubblebeard 2y ago
  Haha yeah that would certainly be useful in some situations xD
- xeromal 2y ago
  lol. My partner and I share a home office and I've worn ear plugs + my range headphones (or my bose 700s) and I can still hear her clacking away and talking on meetings. I'm sure I'm some kind of spaz but god I wish I had something that could completely mute all sounds except my rain sounds. lol
  - skydhash 2y ago
    You want iems. The same kind of earphones musicians wear on sets. The cons is that they can be uncomfortable for long periods. I’m right next to a night club and I’m glad I have a pair lying around.
    - xeromal 2y ago
      Thank you, I'll check these out. I'm willing to pay a pretty penny at this point.
seoulmetro 2y ago
I feel like overuse of ANC is going to come with some sort of physical or physiological drawback soon or too late.
- ffsm8 2y ago
  Highly doubtful, it's just a microphones and the speakers that emit inverted sound waves. This is one of the safest technologies I can imagine. It's more likely that the radio waves from wireless communication (phones, Bluetooth headphones etc) will have negative impact, but even that's unlikely at this point, considering how widespread their use is and no statistically significant link exists.
  - seoulmetro 2y ago
    Sure but it's combined noise on top of existing sound waves that gets me. They don't cancel out midair, they cancel out in your brain right? And yeah, I also don't trust all these radio waves we have going everywhere and wonder if big events with hundreds of thousands of phones are doing at least some damage. Things seem unlikely til we realise. Like plague spreading through bad smells. We were close but dismissive. Anyway I hope I'm not right, but it still plays in my mind.
    - ffsm8 2y ago
      > don't cancel out midair, they cancel out in your brain right? No, they cancel out in front of your ears. If you imagine a bowl of water which has waves on it with a small buoy, then the noise cancelling is another wave emitter placed in front of the buoy that cancells out the Waves that are about to hit the buoy. It's a very physical technology. The amazing/magical part of it is that the microphones pick up the Waves quickly enough for the headphones to emit the inverted wave.
      - seoulmetro 2y ago
        Okay I just assumed it was both waves coming to shore and they fell in such a way that lessened both of them. But if they're colliding outside the ear then I feel a bit better now. I should watch a "how it works" video on this.
flakeoil 2y ago
ANC does not block voices. It's probably passive sound protection in your headphones that causes your partner's voice to sound weak and not go through to your ear. Or plain and simple, just the music you listen to that masks the voice. The only case ANC would block your partners voice would be if it is about as high/low level as the background noise/sound so that it is all mixed into a white or colored noise which ANC can suppress.

A potential feature I didn't know I needed. Have headphones with ANC on around home all the time, would be really useful if it auto passthrough my partners voice.

__MatrixMan__ 2y ago

The opposite would be nice too. Silence specifically this source (probably not your partner, though maybe....)

pyeri 2y ago
"Just block or mute their account, eh.." would be carried to a whole new level - in actual life!
- pests 2y ago
  This is close to a Black Mirror episode. Z-Eyes anyone? Z-Ears?
  - latentsea 2y ago
    Black Mirror was a documentary.
    - seoulmetro 2y ago
      Most episodes are just slightly more invasive and unrealistic versions of technology we have had for ages rather than the usual "they saw the future".
      - pests 2y ago
        I think you are being too dismissive. We watch ads, not by force, but voluntarily for free services or currencies in mobile games. Politicians can do basically whatever they want. We have cameras and even glasses that record everything we do. V-Tubers are more popular by the minute. People get blackmailed for their online activities, wrong as they might be. Kids walk around with parent-forced app's to track their location and online life. Robot dogs are being sold to the public and being used by the military. People care more about filming something or the documentary than the event itself.
        voidUpdate 2y ago
        Just to nitpick one point, I personally think we've passed the peak of popularity for vtubers and it will settle down to a slightly lower level. Having been one myself, I've seen the other side and I think a combination of lockdown and the launch of Holo-EN made a lot of people try it, before realising it didn't work for them
        seoulmetro 2y ago
        Yes. These aren't new concepts that sprung up after Black Mirror. If I'm being dismissive it's because these things can be dismissed as revolutionary.
DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I would be happy with ANC with a doorbell passthrough. Missed a few package deliveries this way. But maybe that could also be achieved with a desktop notification.
- ikari_pl 2y ago
  you can enable doorbell sound notification in Android
  - aspenmayer 2y ago
    You can also do this on iOS and iPadOS as well as AVP with support for training custom sound recognition. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-sound-recognition-iphf2dc33312/ios https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-sound-recognition...
surfingdino 2y ago
Every teen's dream of muting their yakking mother would finally come true.
bubblebeard 2y ago
Haha yeah that would certainly be useful in some situations xD
xeromal 2y ago
lol. My partner and I share a home office and I've worn ear plugs + my range headphones (or my bose 700s) and I can still hear her clacking away and talking on meetings. I'm sure I'm some kind of spaz but god I wish I had something that could completely mute all sounds except my rain sounds. lol
- skydhash 2y ago
  You want iems. The same kind of earphones musicians wear on sets. The cons is that they can be uncomfortable for long periods. I’m right next to a night club and I’m glad I have a pair lying around.
  - xeromal 2y ago
    Thank you, I'll check these out. I'm willing to pay a pretty penny at this point.

seoulmetro 2y ago

I feel like overuse of ANC is going to come with some sort of physical or physiological drawback soon or too late.

ffsm8 2y ago
Highly doubtful, it's just a microphones and the speakers that emit inverted sound waves. This is one of the safest technologies I can imagine. It's more likely that the radio waves from wireless communication (phones, Bluetooth headphones etc) will have negative impact, but even that's unlikely at this point, considering how widespread their use is and no statistically significant link exists.
- seoulmetro 2y ago
  Sure but it's combined noise on top of existing sound waves that gets me. They don't cancel out midair, they cancel out in your brain right? And yeah, I also don't trust all these radio waves we have going everywhere and wonder if big events with hundreds of thousands of phones are doing at least some damage. Things seem unlikely til we realise. Like plague spreading through bad smells. We were close but dismissive. Anyway I hope I'm not right, but it still plays in my mind.
  - ffsm8 2y ago
    > don't cancel out midair, they cancel out in your brain right? No, they cancel out in front of your ears. If you imagine a bowl of water which has waves on it with a small buoy, then the noise cancelling is another wave emitter placed in front of the buoy that cancells out the Waves that are about to hit the buoy. It's a very physical technology. The amazing/magical part of it is that the microphones pick up the Waves quickly enough for the headphones to emit the inverted wave.
    - seoulmetro 2y ago
      Okay I just assumed it was both waves coming to shore and they fell in such a way that lessened both of them. But if they're colliding outside the ear then I feel a bit better now. I should watch a "how it works" video on this.

flakeoil 2y ago

ANC does not block voices. It's probably passive sound protection in your headphones that causes your partner's voice to sound weak and not go through to your ear. Or plain and simple, just the music you listen to that masks the voice. The only case ANC would block your partners voice would be if it is about as high/low level as the background noise/sound so that it is all mixed into a white or colored noise which ANC can suppress.