{"id":190478,"date":"2024-06-02T02:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T07:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/ai-headphones-let-wearer-listen-to-a-single-person-in-a-crowd-by-looking-at-them-just-once"},"modified":"2024-06-02T02:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T07:22:25","slug":"ai-headphones-let-wearer-listen-to-a-single-person-in-a-crowd-by-looking-at-them-just-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/ai-headphones-let-wearer-listen-to-a-single-person-in-a-crowd-by-looking-at-them-just-once","title":{"rendered":"AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ArGKgodEUSo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Noise-canceling headphones have gotten very good at creating an auditory blank slate. But allowing certain sounds from a wearer\u2019s environment through the erasure still challenges researchers. The latest edition of Apple\u2019s AirPods Pro, for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/09\/18\/airpods-pro-usb-c-hands-on-adaptive-audio-and-conversation-awareness.html\">automatically adjusts sound levels<\/a> for wearers \u2014 sensing when they\u2019re in conversation, for instance \u2014 but the user has little control over whom to listen to or when this happens.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Washington team has developed an artificial intelligence system that lets a user wearing headphones look at a person speaking for three to five seconds to \u201cenroll\u201d them. The system, called \u201cTarget Speech Hearing,\u201d then cancels all other sounds in the environment and plays just the enrolled speaker\u2019s voice in real time even as the listener moves around in noisy places and no longer faces the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The team presented <a href=\"https:\/\/programs.sigchi.org\/chi\/2024\/program\/content\/147319\">its findings<\/a> May 14 in Honolulu at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vb000\/LookOnceToHear\">code for the proof-of-concept device<\/a> is available for others to build on. The system is not commercially available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noise-canceling headphones have gotten very good at creating an auditory blank slate. But allowing certain sounds from a wearer\u2019s environment through the erasure still challenges researchers. The latest edition of Apple\u2019s AirPods Pro, for instance, automatically adjusts sound levels for wearers \u2014 sensing when they\u2019re in conversation, for instance \u2014 but the user has little [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}