Product Inspiration

This double feature of related technologies shows how far audio recognition and processing has come in the last decade.

The first product (which is not the only of its kind) listens to a baby’s cry and translates it into a message which us big people can understand; the second is a computer which listens to a barking dog and identifies its meaning.

Now that computers can be programmed to listen for and interpret similar-yet-distinct sounds, there are lots of cool possibilities out there to improve our own hearing abilities with the strengths of a computer. Some other already made examples include an audio system to detect what direction a sniper is shooting from, and biometric voice recognition for security systems. Where else can we augment our hearing to get more info from a sound?

http://ohgizmo.com/2006/03/03/cry-baby-analyzer/

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