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OK. I work in a cube. As usual, every conversation can be heard from at least six cubes away.

The guy in the cube next to mine has this great idea (hopefully MS research will pick up on this).  He brought over a pair of noise cancelling headphones and said wouldn't it be great if we could use voice recognition to create a pair of “noise” cancelling headphones.  So here's how it works, you place the device in the loud users cubicle and five minutes later, “voila” you have enough data to effectively remove their voice range/tones from your airwaves.


Possible abuses:
  1. Everyone gets "the treatment"--very tempting
  2. Your boss gets "the treatment"--you miss something important
  3. Your spouse gets "the treatment"--nothing like finally getting to hear the football game; however it could go both ways

Hmmm, Lee you may be on to something... Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 10:56 AM | Back to top


Comments on this post: Voice Recognition and Noise Cancelling

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I read this and it instantly reminded me of a short story by Arthur C Clarke about some guy that produced a unit called the 'Fenton Silencer'...

A quick google later and here's a link to some info on the piece in question:

<a href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=759">Silence Please</a>

(Don't know if I can post HTML in comments, but I'll give it a shot anyway).

I can highly recommend Tales from the White Hart, and in fact any (most) of Clarke's work as being well worth the read....

Carl
Left by Carl Wright on Feb 17, 2006 12:27 PM

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This reminded me of story from NPR: ( http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4702851 ) from last year.
Left by Kelly Jones on Feb 19, 2006 1:49 PM

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