Re:Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturin...
by jerryr on Saturday March 18, 2017 @11:36PM
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The Amazon echo has a pretty good microphone array, and it still has a hard time picking up my commands if there's background noise. And the background noise in factories is extreme. Notice that in the article's photos, the operator is wearing earplugs with Glass.
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Re:Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturin...
by justin66 on Sunday March 19, 2017 @06:08AM
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It should be a lot easier for a microphone that's right next to your head. Face one or more microphones away from the user, that gives you the environmental noise. Point one or more microphones at the user's mouth (or use some other method). That gives you what you need (signal much louder than the environmental noise, with the right microphone), along with some of that same noise. Apply some noise subtraction magic.
It's actually pretty different than an Echo, which needs to pick out the user's commands via complex signal processing alone.