At first, an in-ear phone and language translator, while useful, might not seem compelling. But take things a bit further. This relies on a mini-computer and connection to the internet in the hearing aid. What if that allowed you to connect to Chat-GPT? Or future more powerful versions of it. That might be more compelling. Sci-fi has often envisioned cyborgs in the future. Maybe one day people will look back at stuff like this and think it was the first baby steps of that technology.
If they make one that lasts all day, and has active noise cancelation above like 100db for hearing protection, I’m all in
also want the possibility to turn my hearing on/off on demand. sometimes i just like to sleep like a deaf cat xd
Technology like this would be ruined by ads. There is no way it would not play ads.
Here’s hoping that it gets hacked to let me use my own content.
As long as they call it a babelfish I’m interested.
On our way to making the Grain from Black Mirror a reality I see.
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Hmm, I guess, potentially interesting for migrants / asylum seekers, who struggle with even just understanding the language.
Can’t really imagine anyone buying these for phone calls, when regular earphones, or you know, just holding your phone to your ear, already exist.
It’s kind of even an anti-feature for phone calls, if people can’t see these hearing aids. Everyone will think you’re crazy, talking to yourself…My partner speaks a native language which is extremely rare - only a few million people worldwide speak the language. So uncommon that it’s hard to find software to teach me the language. A real-life babble-fish would make life a million times easier when visiting her family who doesn’t speak English (I assume, since I know that AI including Chat is capable of translating to and from the language fairly well with good grammar, but I doubt that it would be able to easily synthesize speech patterns for a rare language compared to converting their language to English. But I could be wrong lol.
What language is it, sounds interesting
One of the Baltics
Think about tuning out annoying people or sounds. Turning up volume on people who are low talkers. Turning down loud people.
Phones are heavy and my pixel 6 wrecks my hand if I hold it for too long. Hearables are the future I envision. Glad it’s coming to fruition
Bluetooth headphones do that already for a fraction of the price though… there’s even Bluetooth monitors for musicians that can selectively block certain frequencies/amplify certain sounds. Calling this a ‘hearing aid’ just seems like an attempt to cash in on insurance money/charge a premium because then it’s in a category of ‘medical devices’ rather than just consumer electronics.
Sorry which Bluetooth headphones do this ? I’ve not seen anything like this. Can you post a link
I just have cheap ones, the anker pro life p3, but they have noise cancelation and selective settings for pass-through, so you can select what is amplified and played back through the headphones, but I assume more expensive ones have more detailed settings. They don’t translate things on their own, but if some ‘hearing aid’ manufacturer has the ability and software to do that in real time (which I mostly doubt) then there would also exist software to do that from the phone they’re connected to.
https://www.rollingstone.com/product-recommendations/electronics/best-in-ear-monitors-876600/
That is fascinating. So you can increase and decrease the volume of speakers? I know of house cancelation and I knew some higher ends could increase the clarity of voice versus other noises. But that’s a new ballgame
Can it help with the constant noise I take in all the time. Nothing is wrong with my hearing I just hear it all and can’t focus on someone talking to me if something else is louder no matter what I do.
I’ve read good things about these before, might help: loopearplugs.com (I’m not affiliated)
Decided to order a set. I thought they were standard ear plugs. Looks like these had some engineering behind them.
Yeah I’m really tempted to, I just don’t have the funds at the moment. Let me know what you think!
I think it’s hilarious that one of the advertised features is basically keeping your sanity when you have a newborn.
It’s interesting so far. Not sure if you are in the US or not but recently the whole country had a test of our emergency system. It was super uncomfortable even with them on but I’d have to imagine it would have been worse if wasn’t wearing them.
Also losing the “ability” to hear every small noise around me is rather off putting but in a way…peaceful?
That’s a sign of attention deficit, talk to a doctor and you can probably get help.
I only started talking to my doctor about having issues with just that. Had no idea that was a potential sign
