hearing
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After This Audio Illusion, You’ll Never Trust Your Ears Again
It might be a little too early in the morning to have your mind blown, but this audio illusion is worth your time, because it demonstrates your brain’s uncanny ability to use new information to help process something that is otherwise incomprehensible.
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Why Does Your Voice Sound Different When It’s Recorded?
If you’ve ever listened to a recording of yourself and thought you sound completely different, you’re not alone. But more than that you were also correct. Here’s why it sounds different.
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How We Identify Single Voices In A Crowd
There are plenty of human abilities that we take for granted, which are actually insanely complex. Like picking out a single voice buried amongst the noise of a crowded environment, a problem which has troubled scientists for decades. But now they’ve worked out how we do it — and it could revolutionise speech recognition technology.
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Sony’s Subtitle Glasses Mean The Deaf Can Watch Movies Too
If someone with a hearing disability wants to watch a film that isn’t already subtitled, they have very few options. But now, Sony UK is developing a pair of glasses that display subtitles in time with a given film.