Solving Conversational Distractions
Why I Believe Audio AR, Not Video May Mostly Have The Most Social Value With Time
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Conversational distractions are estimated to be draining 57% of the money in the economy. If you don’t want it to be draining your business, here I offer a combination of three things, AN, Antinoise with a new method of AN I’ve discovered plus how combination with AR "Augmented Audio" may much boost your reception.
My idea was to first remove all the external noise, with jamming and shielding combined with my improved method, this is the AN Antinoise and this is unobtrusive in the conversation and more reliable and durable than expensive AN; but much cheaper!
Then the use of AR Augmented Reality takes the external words being said and essentially filters in any words you may like, and may help you think of just the right words to wedge in the conversation where you like via the web or other source.
I had known for a while as I’ll say, that there is some cheap AN that really does work. The problem beyond this then, is about listening. If I want to be a good listener and be polite so I don’t lose my relationships but can’t hear most of the good words in conversation, this would never work with someone like mom, and what about that darn feline, dogs have owners felines have staff!
AR and speech recognition would seem to be much reduced without a way to block all the rest of the unfiltered sound with the AN so you can then use the AR to listen more on your terms, to listen as you like, and in more inspirational ways..
More About AN and AR combined below. The more basic AN sound attenuation method I discuss here involves a combination of both shielding and jamming; For shielding I use three things; special earstops combined with wax for a real tight seal. In addition for jamming to limit distractions I use special earphones (“Aftershockz”) that are around the head and in front of your ear. They send the sound through the side of your head and blend with the wax and plugs without a huge loud sound, they go inside the plug and blend there with the sound. These are something like an earbud (I once tried stethescope plugs with the small area with the sound plugged in via earbuds on the outside. Compared to the Aftershockz and the wax with the earplugs, this was almost worthless, it had to be too loud so it wasn’t as worthwhile as this.). For shielding, I’ve found with much experience that good noise attenuation can be had at a store like Goodwill, yes Greatwool or Merely Amazin Wool at any rate! I bought some coats with the poly end ties that are about the size for a real good earstop. These are like “toggle buttons” also called cord stops yet they have a line to cinch the coat and you can simply use a shoestring around your shoulders that has the ends tied to both plugs and through the holes in each plug, and the knot that makes it so you won’t lose them in 29 years, is sewn also and I wear my plugs non stop.. (The smoothness and solid shield this allows are both much better for comfort and sound stopping than anything else I’ve seen in 30 years!) This way you never lose the stop, a real issue with ear attenuation, it’s no good if you can’t find the plug if the dog is barking. 20 years ago I woke up! Once more there was noise in the middle of the night. (Studies show if you hear a truck roar by it raises your blood pressure for hours even if you’re asleep… The noise may be causing you physical and emotional harm.)
Second, for a good shield I combine the plugs with wax like beeswax, this forms a real seal, and if you think of earwax, you may remember some events with the way it stops Spot or at any rate conversation with the gossip up the road well. (See sites that say like “How to make your own safe paraffin wax”) As I say the problem here isn’t having the best shielding around; it’s also being able to have a conversation via the AR. I’ll show you how in a second.
I’ve used candle wax from the discount store, however Wellness Mamma recommends something more like beeswax since it’s safer than the presumably harmful compounds in the soft paraffin of candles and the wax works almost as well and better than any other type of wax I’ve ever seen in a flower patch and no loud buzz in my ear!
Even so the best earstops ever I found were called Ohoropax. These are from Germany and they're made out of some paraffin but also beeswax and they've been in the business of snores over a hundred years. You can buy them on eBay for about $20 for 24 stops.
I was originally using paraffin like candle wax but this has harmful compounds. I was “told by a tweet” or tolled that common petrolatum like microcrystal wax was safe as in food grade paraffin or Vaseline but even this “with all the additives removed” is outlawed in Europe as causing cancer. Thus for wax before the Ohoropax I used two parts beeswax boiled to liquid with one part each of coconut oil and olive oil then cooled to solid wax. This works well enough, not quite as dead as the paraffin, and it seemed not quite as solid so you might want to use more of the solid beeswax in the blend. Bee sure to proceed with caution with the hot wax if you want to make your own. I think the Ohoropax works better. I just used a tin can to melt the other wax and stir in with caution. I used pliers to move it then to the back burner after the beeswax is melted. You only might have to do this once in 3 years if you save by using the other adhesion methods (denture adhesive ect) to make it stay more constantly in and also stop itching e.g.. herbs like turmeric and ginger so you won't feel like you're moving out! I spent a week there one day.... I just either put the beeswax in my ear with a cotton swab and then the wax, or and then on my finger up and into the side of my ear, and then press in with my other finger to minimize the aim of meditation where you sit around doing nothing for hours!
I only use the method of AR and AN here about once a week. The paraffin I used was like a sort of rock in your ear it’s a solid as a rock because paraffin is derived from petroleum and petroleum is considered to be a mineral surprise! So it’s like having a really solid shield in your audio yet with a real good fit. This is why I used paraffin earlier on even sew because you can so loops around your ear to hold the ear plug in from there with the cord that holds your ear plug and you don’t have to remove it to hear some of the conversation as I say below because you’re using the word filter and you can use it continuously while you read your readouts with the word filter and the words filtered out so the problem of loss of seal is solved and paraffin is not needed. I only mention this because it was the earlier method that works well even so I consider Ohoropax the beeswax blend of waxes in my ear to be best overall.
I’ve seen sites that when you ask how to lower the melting point of wax like beeswax or paraffin, they say first to add a solute (like water for melted beeswax, this didn’t work since the water resolidified in a separate layer). The above about petroleum and beeswax is an archive it’s months ago in August!
And the best result overall I found for earwax are Ohoropax earplugs. These are made of both parrafin and beeswax that you can buy for about 7 dollars. Ohoropax are from Germany and have been sold for about 110 years so they work well and are thought to be safe. These are simpler to put in the ear than beeswax which is messy. To use you just take a plug out of the earstop tin for a wax ear worthy of Edison. Cut the wax which is solid and then melts (but not so much you can’t remove it if you want to, it’s just right which is much better to remove if you want than petrolatum or beeswax) Cut with scissors and put deeper in your ear and then the plug. I had found that this is cleaner than beeswax.( I got a mold problem in the jug with my second batch of beeswax and while it would last years was another 25$ plus the mold plus melting it on the stove plus the mess in my ear Oropax don’t have. One of the main advantages of the Ohorpax is that you don't have to make it yourself.). About the risk of toxicity like petrolatum I had much discomfort since I’ve had toxicity issues like most may have (I had other herbs to counteract it this like Avemar if it was a health “emergency” see my pages about Avemar and improving it and other herbs. Avemar is a wonderous immune boosting herb. It might even be of value against covid-19 since it completely heals and repairs even a severely damaged immune system as with with cancer and has a toxicological profile like bread or vinegar in low toxicity but highly valuable for this.). With the usual petrolatum this discomfort was an issue but none with the Ohoropax with almost more years of use. In 100 years of use I must be wise! The main reason I like the Oropax is the ease of use and they are the best at limiting speech. The rating is like 27 decibels NRR but I found to my ear de light and my face lit up that if I put it deeper in my ear by using like a third of the Oropax as they recommend and pushing it in closer to my eardrum it attenuates speech as well as petrolatum or better. Petrolatum was the best but Oropax are simpler and without the apparent toxicity. One good thing about the Oropax is that by keeping them in near my eardrum and by more cleansing (ask your audiologist first) they stay more without falling out of my ear. So they actually are worth 25$ worth of beeswax at 1/3 the cost and without the mess. I believe the way they are with high rating about stopping more speech is because being soft yet flexible when pressed in deeper with both the earstops on the line and the Oropax as above they directly contact and immobilize the eardrums so the 27 decibel rating seems more like 36..
I found two ways to get a nice tight seal of the ohoropax and keep them in my ears both saving money and audio shielding value without high cost of custom fit methods. I use pine rosin and also denture adhesive. Don't get the zinc based one it's poison, Polygrip has reduced zinc (at any rate the kind of polygrip I bought you may want to check for no zinc). There are lots of pine rosin products some used for food and like the non zinc denture adhesives are considered safe for skin. These are adhesive enough to seal well but also easy to remove. In my experience I can remove the Oropax deeper in with a bit of effort with my nail if needed (it itched a bit before and this was a reason to remove them more than pot pasta). Even so some experts say not to put anything so deep in the auditory realm if you can’t remove it so you should proceed with caution and I’m not a hearing specialist. This works for me and this may not work for you so I can’t guarantee this is of value.
One issue you may have is ear itching and this itself is easily stopped with ginger and turmeric blended right in with the soft plug.
Another great way to stop bacteria is by a type of coconut oil called MCT Medium Chain Triglyceride oil. The University of Osaka Japan says one version of this oil, tricaprin, actually reverses cardio problems.
It seems to also stop more sound so you may want this method even if your ear doesn’t itch for more attenuation. Ginger and turmeric with a few other herbs are also good for many bacterial issues even gingivitis which not only dramatically stops the inflammation but also reverses much of the damage to gums and teeth without constant flossing and brushing as I say on my sugar defense page Charles’ Sugar Defense. CLICK HERE or see link at the end of page for more. One good thing about using natural antibacterials is that they contain 1000’s of natural compounds that bacteria never get resistance to unlike artificial methods like prescription antibiotics.
Ohoropax and earstops have worked best overall, yes a business sandwich I’ll celebrate! And for noise attenuation it seems of real value.
So here are the two first steps to viable AN for speech cancellation; ear stop toggles sewn together on the line around your shoulders so they’re always in easy reach combined with wax or something like it that forms of excellent audio seal of approval.. Irregardless ignore this wordstop!
This is the first phase of cheap simple AN for editing the audio, first the wax, then the plug. A way to much boost the shielding I found is to combine shielding with the plugs and wax with jamming around via Buetooth head phones called Aftershokz, these go around the back of the shoulders with the solid band and up and over your ear on both sides with the sound travelling from the outside of these “earbuds” into your ear from in front and outside your ear. This provides the jamming. For conversational distraction, you’ll find you need both shielding and jamming for complete attenuation when you like.. In my early research of years I was often detoured by this problem; all the early methods I used to jam the sound otherwise were loud as the sound and this is “a constant loud noise” hardly much improved over, noise! The beauty of improved shielding by the plugs and wax is that if you use the Aftershox like from Amazon for long term audio relief, you only need about half as much jamming to stop the distraction, and the sound of the FM foam I use blends in with the sound not so much in the ear where it sounds MUCH better. I can listen for hours, like indefinitely without discomfort. CLICK HERE for the Aftershokz page on Amazon, or see link at the bottom of this page.
We lived by the shore in the tropics (like 3/4ths of the world does now) so the constant sound of waves is soothing if not too loud. This sounds like a low level like a waterfall, not a huge roar. (Even so I recommend that you see your audiologist before you try this). The source of the Aftershokz audio is just from an FM foam recording from my boombox to the SD disc of my durable MP3 player, mine is an LG 500G and it costs about 10 or 20 on EBay. I got a lifetime supply like for 100$ I was so impressed with the durability, and neat features like Bluetooth like for dubbing this or other recordings. Another way this works well is how you can play music at whatever volume you like. Aftershokz have a great inline volume boost you also have to charge but in my opinion it’s well worth it because mp3s are tough to get with more volume. You really can completely jam out conversation with these, if you’re willing to go a bit deaf like in the old days, even so moderation is common and hopefully uncommon sense for you. You do this at your own risk.
The issue of durability is important for viable AN since if you had an old cassette it would last 3 months not 3 or even 30 years. I recorded just a half hour FM loop and then dubbed it to other LG 500 G’s fast and easy with Bluetooth, I have one or two LGs devoted just to the FM jamming so if it unrecharges, I’m also cured of falling asleep a month.
You may think the Aftershokz might not work or be worth the 30$ or so. To prove this, simply put in the wax and plug, and start chewing gum, this makes a loud enough sound inside you can hear like 1/6th of a conversation or other sound where you may want more control. You have real control of what you are listening to because if you want to think of what you want to say on your end of the conversation just rest a bit during the conversation. If they say something just ask them to repeat it if you didnt hear and listen while you’ll be able to consider more carefully about what the speaker may be saying so you get to listen more with care as by the word filter method see below. Indeed, I use unflavored gum (flavored gum may be poison if you ask me while I chew!) for any short conversations where I want control like e.g. in stores (did you know in R and D 3/4 of those who go in stores feel good, but only 1/3 leave feeling good.). Like if the boss says no headphones on the site, or like you go in the library, and you hear awesome shushing sounds! (Aftershox beam the sound inward, so even in a library the FM sound can’t be seen anywhere from A to AZ..) For sound attenuation like all day, you may get tired of chewing in an hour, this might harm your teeth, so here the Aftershox may be the best way for more soothing relief.
And unlike clunky muffs you can sleep without the earcup and your head up above the cushion. You may wonder why I say this reduces 99% of noise when the jamming via the headband is with considerable sound. This is because noise in physics is defined as changing sound. The sound is somewhat up, but the noise is much reduced. For conversation, this is more than enough. This is why it’s good to make the FM recording to jam with a cheap voice recorder like the LG 500G has this way it’s more smooth and random, so it sounds good and not so rough. Here a PS seems just right right away why wait? Months have passed and Betsy’s fine was saved!
As I was saying above speech to text seemed good, right just type in the words to filter out and jam the rest. This seemed good with new voice recognition. I found an app with viable word filter “Voice Notebook”, a Russian based app and it seemed my years of search were over. However it turns out speech recognition isn’t yet up to the task here in 2018. I just seemed to get conversational confusion.
PS. Here it is September 2020 and speech recognition has improved enough in 2 years to make this method, SR combined with AN now as viable in conversation as a person who knows basic language talking with with someone who knows more. No doubt it will be improving...
I can think of advanced features beyond improved SR e.g. identifying who said what in the conversation, being able to read the filtered enhanced words back as audio, viable offline language pack so web distractions are reduced, larger word filter list {see below for for what I think may be good ways (Comedy Machine link) to choose the best e.g. rhetoric words for this list}, cheap simple video glasses to beautify the neighbors and neighborhood if you want and so the pet won't wake you up with loud slurping on the Scooby snack, and you can see what who says. ANC or noise cancellation may soon also improve by the supercomputers. It's believed they may be in reach from 7 months to 8 years. Even so I found a way almost as good or more than the rest! If you try the chewing gum method with the ear stops above and perhaps wax (I also found this may not be necessary if you just use music jamming or the foam station at the right volume) note that if you have a source of jamming sound with the shield method of the earstops and so on, it really makes it your option if you want your conversation to be trimmed down more to a more basic level, part of it you can’t hear, the “add on” stuff that may not be so worthwhile, and some you can MORE AS YOU MAY WISH (remember conversational distractions are costing the economy big bucks and physical harm) by the following trick; First note how chewing gum with the earstops really blocks speech well. Best is that it also allows you to listen through. That is when you stop chewing, you can hear good enough to understand what they say. Yet when you want to consider more your own words and dreams or visions, you simply chaw on your cud a while! It essentially allows more area to get your words in edgewise… You may find this is so. Loud music stops the conversation, often not a good idea..We have to cooperate in civilization….. and even so a lot of us wouldn’t mind if our own dreams and visions were were just a bit more in the conversation. As I say chewing gum or loud music are not for long term health, chewing gum might make Ohio weigh more! The smooth FM foam and the earstops and wax seem viable for like background sounds like sirens.
And for conversation, here’s the best method I’ve seen yet based on the above about improving conversation by adding more of your own input more often; The earstops are the same and perhaps the wax (may not need it if you jam with the Aftershokz and the stops.).
And the way here seems by having 4 things
A jamming source sound
A way to transmit the sound up to the area of the ear stops;
And the wax in your canal to multiply up this jamming sound
And a way is built in to modulate this sound when you want to listen or have more shielding from the sound during the conversation or lawn mower event.
All this is simple and viable without even using music for most conversation and by a more mechanical machine I've invented amazing as it may seem as you seem more than seem to see by the following method;
First I took an audio phone headband like a plastic band and broke it on both sides to remove the ear cups and then cut the wires.
The audio headband serves as a way to transmit the sound of vibration from the rear.
To do this I took a piece of paper tape like masking tape or you can sew another vibrating surface to the area of the headband around the back of your shoulder.
On both sides of the headband to reach my ear I used two small cups, these were cut out of jump rope handles like small cylinders. I attached these to the headbands with heavy duty duct tape, first wrapped around the outside of the headband and then around the top and side and back down the earcup and then repeat perhaps. I used another small band of duct tape of the same width as the cylinder ear cups are high decrease the duct tape attached to the bands from sliding and securely attach the ear cups. These cups are wider than the width of your ear plug and they transmit the vibration from the rear plug moving your head through the headbands to the ear cups and into your ear by way of the ear stops.
To make the vibrating sound itself I use the strap of a stomach pack like used to carry more like do flochies or business, what's my favorite?
Cash!
Instead of my stomach I put it around my shoulder and I put my cell phone inside of it sewed with my shoelace knotted to my cell phone tied with duct tape on the back. This makes it so I never drop my cell phone to to ding its windshield no windshield wipers needed!
And using the stomach pack like this around my shoulder makes a good bib. This way I don't have to spend a dollar day on clothes because they're always getting stained so I can wear lighter colored clothes I like and nobody thinks I'm going to a funeral right away certainly not mine, how would die!
Sometimes I even lick this bib clean if I want a bit of extra dish!
One good thing about having my machine in close reach like this is about limiting my cell phone use part of the time. This is a problem that more than 50% of people now have. I use a timer padlock you can find on eBay for $25. In China they play too many videos, so they tried timers to reduce overuse, and the overuse increased from 8 hours to 10 hours, I can tell you that using timer padlocks with a short trips like this combined with timing out the router a few days a week is the best of anything I'd seen.. It helps to control the idea of reducing overuse after a few years as well as finding the solution.
This makes it a shorter trip to say no to the phone. And by using another timer padlock with my router in a duffel I'm not online except for a couple of days a week at the most. My efficiency is way up though because eventually since looking at your cell phone actually makes you dumber.. after years of cell phone use I just found I was wondering idly around the internet even after I made my list offline and was ready to go each time to try to find all the searches. I would find it and then I would wander more. I would think this would sound familiar. I can hear Android paper rustling!
But when I'm offline I'm using this phone to write you radioing you with now! so to do this and make it not so interactive also with web pages I save offline, I also use the second timer padlock inside the pouch tied with the line for this for shorter term use for the less habit forming writing, I must hope you my reader may think I'm real!
I use the band around the back of my shoulder to vibrate against the band of the headphones repurposed as above, this sends the vibrating sound through the bands and the cups and through the earstops into my ear with the wax plugs inside.
And the whole point of this other than having the bib and the cell phone that won't drop without computer overuse but in near reach, is how you can make enough random jamming sound to not have to listen to anything you don't want to as much by just moving your head around as you are doing your usual activities as you talk or whatever especially while chewing gum. Or vice versa to listen you can listen reasonably well if you just stop moving your head and unearstop the vibration!
One thing I note is that these press into your ears if you've ever tried those ear stops like they wear for moving airplanes when they're waving all around. These can be a pain in your ear, so the solution is to take small air cushions from the audio phones and put them around the small ear cups between the audio phone beam and the side where your ear is.
One thing I found in the old days when I had audiophones with ear cups is about how they are uncomfortable on your ears because of the pressure with time. The solution for this I found after many years of labor is to take usual error cushions from the earphones (they won't be!) and sew them with some heavy duty thread.
I like waxed awl twine because it's cheap, it doesn't snag or break hardly ever and it's much easy to thread with the larger needle.. The larger needle won't even damage the material much because the thread like 1 mm is larger too. 1 cent per shoe saved is a good rate, if your nose runs and your feet smile!
So I sewed my earphone cushion to the earphones and then I rotate them with different positions.. So this solves what used to be the mystery of what used to cause most people who are now listening to a lot of solid gold to have a lot of audiophone pain. It's because your ears aren't getting enough change in the pressure not because the pressure itself was so bad..
So if you use the same foam ear cushions from the audio phones for this use of also cushioning your ears from the sound jamming method as above, you also want to be able to move them around a bit perhaps by sewing them a bit loosely.
One other thing I noticed about this method is that if you use the cushions it also overheats your ears in the heat outdoors. For this you might want to use the ear fans, you can buy them in pairs 1 for each ear will the battery pack that goes around your shoulder behind. You can get these for only about $20 on Amazon and they are truly awesome for relief from the heat in the summertime if you don't have AC indoors. (Outdoors I much recommend ice juice jugs they stay cool for about 4 hours on a 95 degree day and even have an insulation layer of water around the edge for the right contact with your face.. For more way cool treats about the heat CLICK HERE for my other site about staying cool by physics, or see my link like I hope at end of this post. If you live out west you may find these methods are a blessed vent! )
You may know about personal fans they work but you have to hold them up to your head and I got tired of doing this.. When you buy two of the fans they have bands that are flexible so you can position them just right on your face!
And you can also position these so they cool inside of your ear cup sound shields as above.
In the winter if you want a warm hat close to your ear a second method to create jamming sounds like this is by using the same ear stops from the cord stops, I took a winter hat that was insulated and waterproof and on the inside of it to vibrate against the ear stops I took two pieces of shelf liner like Contac my hat sewed on each side to vibrate against the ear stop when I move my head. While it is the custom of our people physics is a fickle fizz science at times so it took me years to realize that a higher pitch frequency actually shields speech sounds better, unlike the lower frequency of vibration of the first earphone method above with the paper tape on it around your shoulder. This does reasonably well but you have warm cozy ears and no pain with the band pressing your ear without the wind whistling through one side and out the other like the landlady wears! She has awesome earwear..
You can also use chewing gum with the ear stops sewn on to the shoe laces sewn at the knot around your shoulders you don't lose them, along with the Ohoropax earstops which worked the best for me if you also use Aftershokz headphones..
Even so I've tended to graduate away from doing this because the Aftershocks are noisier and the noise of too much music may cause as much harm to health and comfort as the neighbor playing their stereo to begin with. Certainly jamming the noise when it's still loudest and having that option may be more efficient than continually listening to the same neighbor, named you!
It may seem these are elaborate methods or by relatively simple complexity actually, until the event of viable AN noise cancellation for sale to cancel out all the sound, I found this is a lot better than nothing, better sound cancellation than R36. No huge cost, no batteries to charge, no malware.
For years I tried to figure out a way to get this jamming sound where I wanted it to control external Sounds by way of jamming!
My blessing here to you I hope you find of worth I found by a LOT
of trial-and-error Rand D I tell you that there is a way to actually have this jamming sound and transmit it to your ear by this
reliable method that's mechanical and not even with the web so no annoying apps that will make your brain not refresh!
When you combine this with the ear wax and The Tight Seal this can have a dramatic influence on what you listen to in a conversation; you go in the store and you can hear what you like more often!
If you use this method you can go in the store and come out feeling as good as you go in like the three fourths instead of the the rest in the study who were more uncomfortable presumably and this can improve your comfort basically doing business which obviously... has real value!
Because this is a mechanical and non cyber method, modulating the sound by jamming and shielding, it means that it looks quite unobtrusive like wearing ear stops and these are good enough to do this because they're real durable and they give the vibration sound with the nylon or polyester fabric.
As far as I can tell this simple kind of method can have powerful influence on all kinds of relationships.
Not just business but as they say good fences make good neighbors and most people are our neighbors including our relatives and other associates...or even just for neighbors who turn up the station..
If you have disputes you're allowed to change your reaction at least if you do it well enough, and a good way to change your reaction is often to build a good enough fence that also allows others to reach you when you have accepted the bet.
When you want to listen so you can be considerate of both you and your neighbors, stop moving your head in the conversation. This seems to be an easy way to understand most of the conversation yet not be run over sometimes by sometimes unprincipled people. Certainly while this isn’t a guarantee of value in life, it can be a real help improving the probability of your ideas being heard more often if there is doubt.
Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to talk and so will others. We’re in some discomfort and with no guarantees in life. God may give us the picture but I don’t expect him to paint it.
The idea of the hat or using a bandanna in summer are that your ears are more shielded from ideas or words that may not be of value.
It works for any type of verbal event. It looks fine for the holidays and visits.
As much as I know the above is real AN. The only other way in my years of search was over the ear clunky gunshot muffs with earstops like R 34 NRR, or AN headphones which even if viable for hundreds is still going to meltdown and it’s not so easy to blend in, like why the boss wonders! So this method of jamming and shielding is a real way to solve this first phase of “cheap audio AR”.
Most AN costs more than 100 and didn’t work for me, and methods like soft earplugs seem more than a complete ShamWow. For me the clunky ear muffs that crash in a year (AN Earplanes for 70 at 17 a use!) were just foam junk that was a clunk.. Only R34 or higher is of any value and the above method is more blessed than anything even an oil rich cheese sandwich!
And if you like some music, you can listen to a second set of phones around your ear with a second audio source. Even so while research shows listening to music like when you read doesn’t improve memory or concentration, leaving earstops in also increases noise sensitivity.
So I imagine using speech to text with the custom edits and then text to speech to listen as you like through the phones, this may be a cure for loneliness in the outbox..And of course for common loud noise you can wear usual type AN headphones over the earstops.
The method above is mostly for more conversational control, like around the house or like for visits.
This is great for relatives who come in from outside and try to be perhaps impolite if I also make sure I have more of lots of good words saved up. I say, “sure I agree”, and then go ahead and do the right thing. If the opportunity is reduced for some behaviour, the behaviour is reduced more to that degree. If you have good intent you will be alright.
IF YOU STILL HEAR MORE THAN YOU'D LIKE CONSIDER BUYING A CHEAP MINI GUITAR AMP LIKE A "VOX". This plugs in your mp3 Jack with effects like reverb to modulate speech just right. You might also want to try other modulators like speech changers if this isn't yet as good as you'd like
And this has a second valuable use, that you can actually hear your music when you listen to your mp3! I went through several of the gyp volume booster amps and they're good at volume limiting you know I got one that said it was a volume booster and sure enough it lowers it to any volume below the volume you usually listen to it. These gyp volume boosters like the Boostaroo which were expensive like $40 or 50 or more unlike the Vox are good at lowering volume of conversation like with the automobile amplifier since this was too loud at the lowest volume setting to be as comfortable in conversation..
I only use my my Aftershocks for visits or appointments like this. Since they cost 100$ for two pairs you may want to only use them as a dedicated machine so they last indefinitely. I had my first two pair and they both crashed the same day after a month and a year. The pair I bought for 50$ I had tied around with duct tape with the other pair so both were in tandem around in hopes of better comfort and looks, but the second cheap (out of box Ebay) pair crashed, no power, gone after a month. So I tried to cut the wires to remove it and this cut the wire of the second good Aftershokz pair and both pairs were gone the same day. The second brand name good pair had a three year warranty, and they might have endued ten years. So I don’t recommend taping them. I use this method as a dedicated option, as in for appointments or visits with relatives.. If you buy the Aftershokz from the site with the Aftershokz name it costs a bit more but they have the 3 year warranty and they might last for 20 or 30 years if you don’t damage the wire and use them for social use not music as I do.
In addition, they are loud enough to hear music so I’m going to buy more, and I always have two pair on hand for social events and the third pair is for music. Indeed for music they may be an investment in headphones that wont damage your ears with volume since they are bone conduction phones and they are loud enough to hear (with the plugs in, right!) as they reverb and rewind around in your head, whats an earbee worth, listening to solid gold beeswax blend audios buzzing around!
If you want to tape them with duct tape, I recommend that you use a base layer of paper tape so they can be more easily removed if you ever want to, sooner or later even if after 20 or 30 years, one or the other will crash and you want to save them up! The paper tape base layer duct tape method is really great to tame wire clutter in general like charger wires and can be labeled and won’t damage your wires, simply use scissors and cut outward. Even so real caution is advised with wires like Aftershokz or other headphones might be advised. Best for this might be small bungees or hook and loop.
Wired phones seem optimal for audio. I went to the Aftershokz site and typed in wired, these are not Bluetooth and while it’s often of value for sending documents I’m not a Bluetooth fan about using it for audio well earfan earcooling audio, jingle bells, jingle bells! My bluetooth always never connected up half the time, not good while the relatives are watching me with a fine toothed brush! I’ve gone back to yourland, this land is your land, this land is Aurora land!
If you are a boss and reading this you may like using these methods to save 57% of your employee money lost to conversational distractions, after all you are the world’s nicest boss right.. I’ve seen audio systems for 10’s of thousands that may not do as well as these methods of shielding and jamming for 20$..Even so AN combined with AR seems best…
How To Use The AN Method As Above With Audio AR Augmented Reality (As I say above in the PS this will be a future use due to the current unviability of speech recognition. The best I’ve seen yet is the hat jamming or cooling band summer method as above). By this I mean, AR using a speech to text app to edit out what you should have the option of deciding might be conversational spam or not. Simply find software with a search like “blacklist for words” or something like “word replace” “speech to text, custom dictionary” or "speech to text word replacement" in the Google App store or elsewhere. Many of these apps are cheap or no cost. I went through about 5 junk software apps, such total junk 3 of them had no way to even start since they would say say a contact name, and then not recognize what I said or any way to enter the contact name elsewhere I could find. Another app in the Google store for Android features “Eve” what seems a true personal assistant of cybering up level, level on up! With a picture of a cute lady not a total loss. “The year 2037 has arrived” yet this seems the off off broadway college of software coder who just want to be paid, so far so blessed! The Eve app was actually with poor recognition and if you type in help it sends you to a worthless link page none of which click or open, and no way to reset my reset. The Google speech app works for iphone like 5 or higher ios 9.0 or higher. One good thing about the Google translate (English is where you are perhaps) is you can get the language packs, a download goes anywhere out in the country of rural languages that makes it so you don’t have to have a cellphone contract or risk harm to your cellphone by malware if you use it just for this purpose. Like 1/3 of cellphones and computers are removed to trash recycle each year because of problems like malware. This can be expensive and without the web connection, the iphone might last 30 years and not cost like 1000. Another advantage this has is reduced risk of web overuse or something much like autism, it’s reducing grey matter and neurotransmitters. Research shows in surveys 1 in 5 say they use the internet “almost constantly” and 27 million are estimated to be internet overusers in China. I believe this is mostly due to slow modems and this creates randomness which is known in to cause gambling overuse behaviour. So to limit any risk I use my mouse and Wifi wire in the Timer box I got on Amazon for about 60$ as I say, you can Click Here or see link at end of page about this important method of saving eyes and other value like weight loss!
Of course, about speech recognition this isn’t worth much without a viable speech AN method, a net isn’t much for fish if all the fish go by. As above however, using the shielding and jamming method is an easy solution I’ve devised, this is real AN for speech, higher than NRR 36, unlike any other method for speech since AN doesn’t work for speech as you may know since AN is a slower cyber method that only finds sounds that are slower and more regular at lower frequency. Speech is higher, faster and it changes more so the AN in use won’t find and stop the speech, AR in 2018 isn’t for conversation yet, AN earbuds are worthless yet cost 100.
UPDATE, PS..About the word block, I’ve found it may only be for PR by Google or other software vendors and not for offline use at any rate. More recently I found that the Voice Notebook speech-to-text app seen on Google Play does have a viable word replace list! This seems to be soon to be viable offline and with only a 10 word basic list (turned out to be more but the app says more might not be so reliable for the connection) this would seem like the most basic level of AR. It introduces the somewhat magic method of speech recognition in the conversation. It’s so much a spiritual event that even just basic AR like this may be of real worth for millions of people.
TWO OTHER OPTIONS
You can buy a landline phone with an out jack. You plug this into your cell phone to reach the speech recognition there with your custom word list. A more advanced way to do this maybe to take those custom word lists and use an AI bot to convert those words into random jokes or other witty words you might want to say. AI may be great for tedious events and perhaps for tedious people too.
You can also do the same thing perhaps for portable speech recognition.
If you can't do this yourself and it may take advanced knowledge of programming in electronics, you might consider having a prototype made by companies in the business.
Currently you might get a prototype made for perhaps $1,000. If you like them a lot and a lot of people would love to have a landline phone (so hackers can't tamper with it) like this I presume, it might be good to go into business selling these prototypes instead of just the "one off" which is "an assembly line of one!" for just $1,000. There may be a huge market possible for this. You might have all of them you want and you can bring the price down for yourself and others by having the prototype business make them for you on the assembly line.
To remove the main part of the frowning by some of the neighbors if you have that going on (most do because last year 50% of Americans reported having to listen to unkind words) consider strobe glasses. These are glasses used by athletes that basically reduce the amount of visual information like with a strobe light and you can see part of the motion but not most of it. By reducing more of the visual information but with still enough to get by this would seem to reduce the visual influence of others so they all seem just as beautiful as each other. This may have the value of reducing overemphasis on either beauty or not so beautiful behavior.
To have a prototype made or the strobe glasses which cost about $200 may seem to be high priced, while soon the price will be coming down. A lot of people may be getting a lot of money by way of crypto thousands have, thousands! Or just a lottery winner where most of them lose their money in 5 years, essentially they' re in for a lot of overcrowding where jealous or greedy relatives or other cons descend on them.
If you win money by crypto or the lottery either one or if you're already wealthy you want to be able to control how you spend your money, and it should be your option.
The way to achieve this may just to have a cheap prototype made of a machine like this. This is just the start..soon almost anyone be able to buy these machines cheap.
This is not being unkind, not finding the bad words as often you're also finding the good words and you can find the good words as much as you like more often!
And in the future by the simplicity of word block and higher speed chips, no not chips off the old word blocks!… there may be as much value for most who use it as the change in computer illustration from the 1990’s to 10 years after. Remember computerized art then? It was like cardboard cutouts, yet by 2010 it was amazing. Keep in mind that super computers are being built that may solve both speech recognition and sound cancellation in just a few years. By Moore's law chip speed has doubled each 18 months but these super quantum computers may multiply this by 100s of times.
If you are involved with speech recognition, you might want to link these computers from the heavy lifters up on Olympus to your machines. The code used for Voice Recognition here in 2020 "as I speak" uses only 100,000 bits presumably to optimize value for use online. I would think if a lot more code was online the developers would use it.
This may be of real value for some of us who use words! Huge money is involved and this seems how it may be. It may be real mews if your cat reads Meow TV and it may be here in awhile.
Lance Winslow in his future concepts site (Ezine Articles) says the AR eventually may be so real you won’t even know you’re not in the city in the country. So stay tuned to AR it may be soon that the great value of Custom Dictionaries are viable as you see on this site. Addictive behaviour, bad behaviour, debt, pleasure in life, all may be improved with AR. Epictetus in ancient greece was saying, “It’s not what happens in life it’s how you change your reaction in 2500 years!” While he was calm and waited, here in the 2000s if you’ve waited is a way more swift and swooft solution than they had in ancient greece! My belief is if a lot of the famous musicians or the people in Congress had AR this might match reduce their stress and their debt would go down. "The right to own thier own words has been something more recently that only the rich could afford." Control is a major advantage if there's doubt. This is why I think a machine like the phone version of AR like this may be a huge hit. There may be huge numbers of people who would like to listen to nice words in their conversations most often.
“When AR becomes Viable” what May be THE BEST CUSTOM WORDS? CONSIDERATIONS..
Words, are the custom of our people! so it is said in folk stories, and it’s interesting what kind of words you want to to replace the words with. It’s been said that everything has a bad side and a good side and this relates to the ancient science of rhetoric which Aristotle was is a sister science of Truth. The great method of the ancient Greek speakers was to use this idea always in hopes of finding their own good side of what was being considered it’s always there and it’s sort of cosmic. The easiest form of rhetoric there is has been considered to be name-calling (dysphanism) and almost anyone can think of a bad name to call someone if they think they’ve had bad luck. This can’t be obvious because it would often be illegal so often the name calling to the extent that they are present like when bosses are yelling at you are often concealed as a pun. So it’s often important not to just consider the good side and bad side of words like synonyms and antonyms you can find in a thesaurus but also to consider pun lists that lead to words that are on your good side of whatever you want to improve. I use this to also improve habits so I’m not learning a lot of fat jokes or anything harmful and the good side of my mores for all my neighbors, associates, and realtors! Also it’s highly important to be able to Find comedy and cheer in what is being said.. my hopes are to find the good side and probabilistic contradiction in what’s being considered. Exactly how to do this and how to build your own Comedy Machine as I have done with an A to Z list of puns and cross-referencing so you can go from any problems to the related solutions to hope to find your answers fast and how to use the Machine to create your own custom comics and also how to make simple reliable exercises to more reliably advance your wisdom about these events. All this about how to find the best words in replacement word list and more are on my link below called How I built my Own Comedy Machine and Saved!
Conversational Distractions At Work
While studies show 20 percent of employers think conversational distractions are a problem, 70% of employees say they think so, and it’s easy to see just adding the “Conversational AN” and AR plus a bit more like a complete omission of the comments some employees might make e.g. about embarrassing or offending habits to the other employee on the job in the cubicle as they say to another in the office may be of great value. (“They say” sometimes though not always the worst liar in the world.). This level of filter would perhaps not just remove some of the bad words from the readout, this might remove all the words by that author, U R the editor! Use of biometric sensing, by the speech ID to see who’s saying what may be the only other way to remove the worst of these type of events in the office with the science here in 2018. While the puns can be removed, problems that are more complex like with “content” can’t yet be edited this way, since current technology doesn’t well filter for content other than puns or like curse words. This method of speech print ID would be most viable for more complex events, so the employee could either be instructed how to remove what they want for maximum office comfort, or they could ask the employer, who would make sure they had the bosses interest also in mind and also weren’t removing the more valuable events. I understand that business is worth it to bosses, (what’s worth the rent, right..) and with the more recent cutting of costs most are involved in, the employer may think if it’s them or the employee whose business comfort comes first, then the conversational distractions are for the employee to pay if in doubt, this is breaking no law. Even so employers are only reacting to the change and they would often like to more have the employees comfort in their reach, since a healthy business also is made strong by healthy satisfied employees, reducing problems like employees changing jobs out of disdain for the noise. Each reemployment often costs businesses thousands. The real reason conversational distractions are costing businesses so much is only because employers have no alternative before methods like I speak of here, not because they weren’t hoping to find them. 57% is a lot of business and the golden rule isn’t just about gold, it’s about life.
Conversation Distractions In General
I once read in Reader’s Digest that “they often expect a holiday like the first Thanksgiving!” where “a bunch of strangers sit around and act like savages” I think they say this because the automobile makes even relatives strangers, so they act this way more often than otherwise they would. “The absent are always wrong” is the old saying, and this may be the cause. Yet in a conversation as in chess, the most common tactical method by far is the “pin or pun” So if you simply edit out all the more unpleasant words before the holidays or other such events, this will take most of the bite out of events like this. Even so deleting all the words of some of the people you see by the speech ID wouldn’t be the golden rule, A dog needs to bark for good health, and your brain gets exercise by being at least as wise as the dog, what dog rhymes like you in Nashville! For more offensive events like at the holidays with antacid (remember her? She’s uncle acids wife!) the best method might be to use the speech ID to find the ant or aunt (I luv Aunt Bee) and then build up the filter with the speech ID and the wordblock list for that special relative at Christmas. Most verbal traps are puns or cliches, like stock scenes in movies. Even with the worst verbal events, the words are often simple. A velodrome is a velodrome, a velo wheel is around the arena!
This is because the idea is that common words are more than enough to often cause stress to the defender, even they know this. I would think this method of viable AR and AN might save more marriages and business relationships than the house that cash built, and research shows the holidays it seems are when the most weight is increased. If you look at pets, the deeper in the city and the more noise, the more overweight they are. I realized my cat was overweight if I had to lift the cat up on the pet treadmill, and it was too heavy, and I jog also and cheer up the feline!
For the most powerful use of this method speech recognition might find just the right words for your special relative you love the most and other words for your business associates. These methods may help you find comfort with relatives who agree, and strength with people who disagree.
About this AR/AN method I just say if someone asks, “I’m a bit deaf”, but this may be improved over deafness which Edison liked, the outventor said it let him concentrate on his labor of love. He had the idea for WWW, As Seen on FM! Audio AR like this may involve more than just replacing words, it could be used with a comic in place of words like fat or dumb or “luxury sized or a good cure for insomnia”, and there are now cheap ways to set up an automatic link to a web URL for the given video input, these are called “auras”, so this could add a lot of inspiration in lots of ways when the audio is used instead of video as the source of the insert. Software these days enables comic creativity where the two machines improvise comedy based on what the other machine says. There are all kinds of other words that may help sooth your listener, science, the good words you want to send (euphemism you can find them in a thesaurus) or whatever you or they find of value, all the good in life for you and the world is what I dream of.
Soon there may be video editors that automatically may beautify your neighbors if they seem hostile or ugly. It’s been found that the road you live on influences how much you weigh, so this may be of value for neighbors who feel bad, essentially a way to enrich any neighborhood.
It’s been said by a rich lady, one of the Vanderbuilts I think (I know it must be true!) “the city would be alright, except there’s so much you don’t want to see, and so much you don’t want to hear” Then she goes back to her rich estate in the country. For the rest of us, soon there may be audio and video much like the rich that adds to our strength not causing harm..
In a way, the above about audio AR is a sort of truth accentuator.
Brain sensors that find who's telling the truth or not though may have an even more dramatic influence on society. Even so as I say on my post CLICK HERE in the long run the most powerful way to influence behavior and improve it may be by reducing the overcrowding as I say on the link, this may have more influence than AR ever would.
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