Nissan takes on EV road noise with lattice trap
Nissan drew interest this week at CES with its announcement of an acoustic meta-material to reduce road noise in electric vehicles.
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News tagged with ambient noise
Security
When smartphone finger taps can lead to side channel attack
You type, hacker deciphers, your password is doomed. That is the grim scenario being discussed in a paper that is now on arXiv. "Hearing your touch: A new acoustic side channel on smartphones," is by authors Ilia Shumailov, ...
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Facebook filed patent for ambient audio system: Rejoice they said they will not use it
Now this seems curious. A company files a patent application for a system that it never intends to use. Why bother? Facebook, the company that filed, has its reasons but first let us see what the patent is all about. Facebook ...
Machine learning & AI
Decreasing noise in acoustic underwater transmissions using deep neural networks
The accuracy and reliability of ocean communications and transmissions are affected by many sources of offshore distortion and background noise. Decreasing this interference in ocean transmissions is dependent on the process ...
May 31, 2023
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Hardware
Intuitive machine control using speech recognition
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Oldenburg have developed a speech recognition solution for use in industrial manufacturing.
Feb 15, 2023
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Internet
A system for stable simultaneous communication among thousands of IoT devices
A research team led by Professor Song Min Kim of the KAIST School of Electrical Engineering developed a system that can support concurrent communications for tens of millions of IoT devices using backscattering millimeter-level ...
Jul 28, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Deleting double-talk: researchers advance echo cancellation technology
Have you ever heard your own voice talk back to you on the phone? It's a nuisance, which is why people developed filters that adapt to the sound in a room and remove this echo (the technical term is echo cancellation).
Apr 7, 2021
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Engineering
Designing workplaces with sound disturbances in mind
Workplaces are full of sound, most of which is not helpful to workers trying to do their jobs. Scientists are using physics to understand how conversation, music and other ambient noise is experienced by individuals in a ...
Dec 6, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Review: Edifier headphones and earbuds give you great sound, no wires
There are times when we all would like to tune out the outside world and just relax in peace and quiet.
May 15, 2019
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