Noise-canceling robots to 'mute' loud conversations in cafe
interestingengineering.com
The smart speaker uses advanced deep-learning algorithms to detect loud locations in a room.

Noise-canceling robots to ‘mute’ loud conversations in cafe | What if we told you that we can actually silence a noisy table right next to us in a café?::undefined

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    1 year ago

    Seems soooo much more complex than simply using regular noise canceling technology which we’ve had for ages now. In my previous company it was amazing how well it worked. You could be maybe 5 feet away from someone you could hear them perfectly fine, but move 10 feet away and everything was just muted down. One day we had some electrical problems and the system was down, and that’s when you really could notice how well the system worked because you could hear people all the way from the other side of the building when before when the system was running those noises were totally gone.

    • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      What you described from your previous workplace sounds amazing, but you must’ve used phase cancellation too, didn’t you?

      How is this so much different from what you’ve used back then?

    • DrMango@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Most office centers these days pipe in low-dB white noise to mitigate some of the chaotic noises of office work. Unfortunately if you’re the kind of person with a neurodivergence that makes you sensitive to sensory overload this could be one of the reasons office spaces make you feel so exhausted 😃