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University of Washington

SoundBubble

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A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has created a headphone prototype that allows listeners to create a “sound bubble.” The team’s artificial intelligence algorithms combined with a headphone prototype (pictured here) allow the wearer to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet.

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Chen et al./Nature Electronics

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