"The Truth Abounds in Silence"
Why I Believe Audio AR, Not Video May Mostly Have The Most Social Value With Time
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The following is not medical advice, I'm not an expert.. this post is mostly for information and entertainment purposes. This site is a sort of self portrait and for charitable purposes. While I do my best to improve this site I can't guarantee this post is 100% accurate or up to date. It's recommended that you see your health care professional before making any changes in lifestyle or exercise.
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 by configuring it with the AI chatbot you are inspired with hope for just the right words to wedge in the conversation for good habits like via the web or other source, a "conversational guardian angel".
My most advanced method for sound attenuation uses both shielding and jamming.
For the shielding and a good seal somewhat further in my ear, bubblegum works for higher frequency sound, and on the outside small smooth fish weights with steel spheres inside to make enough jamming sound to cancel even loud speech, simple, cheap, and will never crash or meltdown. Easy to turn it off just by not moving your head unlike with noise jamming phone apps.
NOTE ABOUT THE COPILOT REVIEW OF THIS PAGE
AI's claims in the review are my methods I describe are unsafe and unviable, but as I say I've done a lot of research, and while it might not seem so, here more indepth are my claims;
About saving 57% of the economy's money, a bit of audio imperfection may be a better value than brain or cardio damage caused by noise. Science shows noise shrinks the brain so a real change with noise reduction while not perfect may help more than other ways of solving this, at a much cheaper cost, (almost 0 not 1000s for AN that has no value as I write this here in May 2026. It might eventually but AI also says the sound inside the ear is too random for AN to solve it).
While I did list my consideration of lead earplugs (though high sound attenuation, toxic) or earplugs with the air removed (not for sale on the web, might implode and need a seal around the outside) and I only listed these here for information or illustration purposes like all the methods on my pages.
I wasn't recommending these only describing them since for others doing science they might improve more. And I listed these to offer inspiration and hope that control of sound could be achieved.
Also I wrote before the AI review about being sure to ask your audiologist before using any of these sound attenuation methods and I was experimenting with candle wax for only a while, not that I recommend it, as I said years before AI, petrolatum has been outlawed in Europe.
I would rather earn more and not have noise reduce 57% of my income like most, so I continued my research..
AI seems to imply the fish weights may be a bit sharp, but they're smooth, we're only listening to the fish sing on the wall!
I can say that the fish weights (with small spheres inside to make jamming sound) are just the right size to fit in my ear and smooth, and won't go inside my ear because the center area is wide and would cause discomfort..In my more advanced method I use a button between the fish weights with a line tied to it for outside reach if needed and the bubble gum to reduce the adhesion and to make it easy to increase or reduce the jam volume by moving the weights in or out.
When removed from or more in my ear it has a more muffled sound mostly good enough for lawnmowers, trucks and sirens. To remove the button of the right size, I used awl string sewn in the holes or other string. If so, make sure it's not deeper in the canal, especially with the right size of button and especially with bubble gum deeper inside the ear canal so it goes no deeper. (The button line I also tied to the fish weight line, which is tied to my hat. You can also use a headband or beret higher up for this.)
Finally, as I said, bubble gum is less adhesive than chewing gum and when I push it in the area of worth it's solid and adhesive enough not to go further even while it pulls out in one bit if you want to remove it.
I find it so valuable for noise attenuation I might only remove the gum once a month, reducing hazard of removing it.
I've been experimenting with audio 30 years and more, and I never had any of my adhesives stay in my ear when I removed them..
AI also claims there is no NRR36 for speech because of its other attributes, but my reasoning is simple..if big clunky headphones with NRR36 stop speech and my much lighter weight methods stop speech, they're NRR 36 at least enough to be in the general area.
The idea that the fish weights are too loud is not an objection because you can reduce the volume either by not moving around, by pulling them out of the canal or by doing as I do and using the ear stops in place of the weights with the bubblegum which are tied and sewn around my shoulder so they're always in reach, alternating with more quiet earstops and the jamming fish weights like for outside or anywhere you want.
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A whisper if real enough can sooth most and when I listen, with these methods it's more of value for me at any rate!
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While as I say below about other methods related to the use of wax and fishing weights, the right kind of sound jamming like thunder sounds with headphones, using AN earstops with right kind of wax are another option.
This method and the alternate like "cord stop" earplugs with wax inside like denture adhesive (I used the type without petrolatum till I found bubble gum is much cheaper for the value) and or bubble gum allow either complete attenuation for the app, or a lot of cancelling with the earstops and wax, but they have limitations; the jamming app with ear wax and plugs is all day noise and needs to be turned off and on to use and the batteries of both the phone and the headphones need charging, and so they're not as useful while you use your phone for other use. My chip muncher has a good annoyance rating, 5 stars otherwise, or enough!
The simple ear stops with wax or bubble gum somewhat deeper in the ear canal to seal are a much better value than foam earplugs.
Loop earstops or snore stopping plugs with what look like small antennas to supposedly stop snoring are total sham gyps as well as any AN earbuds or phones I ever tried..$40 $120 pick a number any number if you like me, save most!
The vendors know you want to stop the noise because it causes neural damage which is understandable, but they are waiting with sham solutions that look like innovations and are just junk. Anything rated NRR 27 or even NRR32 to me is a waste of time. And while the plugs with bubble gum stop high frequency speech..they don't stop 100% of speech.
Since using jamming and shielding by wax for constant use is presumably not optimal as above and shielding with the stop and wax is not 100% for speech I continued to improve these methods. The most important way I use to stop more sound is about using mechanical sound makers in my ear, these are simple poly noise makers used to find fish on the line.
See photo and Amazon link below if you like..
This is a wondrous way to jam lower frequency noise like speech. It's even good enough for loud speech. Unlike jamming methods like white noise, you can turn it on or off simply by not moving your head much because it's powered by the inertia of the gravity, the waves flow around and never stop my ear stops!
I combined this with using bubble gum deeper in my ear. Unlike chewing gum bubble gum has elastomers and these are stretchy so they're better at stopping high frequency sound.
As I'll discuss further, once you have this kind of AN to shield yourself from sound if you decided you'd rather not listen, you can then use speech recognition if you like for a custom word filter and you can have more positive conversational events.. Glasses to transcribe like AirCaps or Xander, Xrai or Captify allow you to see just what the other person is saying, and you can improve what I call conversational hygiene for example people who try to promote unhealthy criticism like constant name calling that has no worth to them or others. 50% report having to listen to this, and I'm sure most would rather have a kinder conversation.
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 more 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 used 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. As I will discuss, using fish weights use to alert fish make great jamming, and you can turn them on or off just by relaxing and not moving perhaps while you read this page!
Before I tried using the band around my head to send vibrations from another like nylon band on the back of my shoulder into my ear and causing a loud jamming sound! It wasn't much allowed by me and it was such a pain by pressure on the outside I had to stop.
If my speech is 45 minutes and I thought it was 35, it's copyread 2056!
Still the idea of jamming seems to be superior because AI says there's no known way to counteract higher frequency sound like speech.
As I say, however there were some encouraging words of relaxation about when I found actually candle wax stops all kinds of sounds including speech and makes them a general muffle but hardly noticeable. While this was encouraging candle wax contains deadly poisons like xylene and tuoluene, candles are air unfresheners! So I discontinued petrolatum years ago and I only listed it here for archival value and for a morale boost because it proves it can be done!
Aftershokz 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 and this causes too much discomfort from the pressure. No wonder nurses like to listen to us and not them).
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 also called cord stops yet they have a line to cinch the coat and you can simply sew 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 other than fish weights 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.) And then the light arrived and it dawned in me! Tie and sew the stops around my shoulder and they are always in reach..
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Using bubble gum if you chew all the sugar out makes a great seal you never see with usual methods. To reduce the sugar impact on your teeth you can chew it with Extra brand to boost your bodies defense against the germs.. See this link for more..As I researched, bubble gum works better to stop sound. Plus you can read a laugh and have your fortune read, "You don't have to feel good to be great" we all read our fortunes years ago! This inside the stops stops high frequency speech. I was hoping to add cheap AN like with NRR 35 to reduce the basic speech sounds when I may want. So far no value with AN I bought here in 2026.
Bubble gum has better noise attenuation since the molecules have more elastomers like petrolatum but not poison. Since industrial bubble gum base compounds are secret formulas or we might chew our way out! The best way to find the best noise with the stops stops may be just to experiment with different brands as I am. I'll let you know how this turns out.
You don’t have to remove the stop 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.
This is a photo of me you I hope you may think is cool.. I hear more and more of what's and whats!
Even so some audiologists say not to put anything so deep in your auditory canal you can’t remove, 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.
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Here I want to share what may be my best method of all to jam sound. This is really simple.
A MECHANICAL WAY TO JAM SOUND OFFLINE. My Highest Rated Method..
I had experimented with small noisemakers that have steel spheres inside the poly device. Like the other methods of rustle paper like for a cat bed you can buy on Amazon or just use without jamming, the best way yet for me I found is to chew bubble gum, leave it overnight to be more solid, then bite or tear off a piece about 1/4 in by 1/3 and roll it into a tube somewhat and put this more solid piece deeper in both ears, and put the rest of the gum two bits about 1/3 in round into the ear canal.
(If you have any cautions about this and still don't want noise an alternative might be to use reduced earplugs inside your canal with a line to remove them with the fish weights more outside.)
For my own use this is by far the best for higher frequency sound, e.g. research with the weather report on my landline phone at medium volume. (This is a good way to research.. For like going outside like with sirens test at higher volume.)
The winner of the Missouri lottery says her family members were like sponges who come and try to absorb the money from her. If I become wealthy, perhaps by using some of the methods of my site I will give to charities and tell relatives no because they'll be back for more orherwise, along with pressure if I say no.
If you have annoying relatives who visit, perhaps with dubious presents and comments like "Thank You I think" your money should be in your control and you shouldn't have to pay extra you didn't agree to; the rustle, earstops, and wax in ear methods combined with the Speech Recognition app to replace their words with what I call "good conversational hygiene" work well. More about the apps below.
A method only for the most valuable use, and not for constant use due to cost and comfort are the rustle sheets you can buy on Amazon. I put these over my head inside my hat with the ends over my shoulders inside my shirt (as with the vibration band it's the relative motion between shoulders and head that make the jamming sound) They rustle sheets aren't durable so they cost $5 a week or $260 a year. These are hot in summer and are a good jamming sound with the earstops like cord stops tied to a shoelace I sewed to my shoulder so they're always in reach and some type of wax to isolate the outside sound while it sends the jamming sound in.
For more common use I use the bubble gum and also fish alerts, small noisemakers made of poly that jam noise well,
Here's the Amazon link..
photos..
Inside are small steel spheres that multiply up the sound you hear they make if you also have sealed the sound with bubble gum
The only method with my higher rating would be by making an app you make with an app maker that senses the sound outside and automatically jams it. While this would be most efficient because it may jam the noise only when needed the fish alerts are almost as good because you can easily turn down the volume by sitting down or resting, and you never have to keep charging the battery..
I tried another noise jammer like larger spheres with holes in them they were too much volume plus the adhesion of the gum got inside and they soon stopped the sound jam.
The spheres were also about 2/3 in, and these however are improved and will fit well.
To stop the bubble gum from adhesion to these while they jam most sounds quite well, the bubble gum is good for higher frequencies and necessary, so I use a small button between the gum and the fish weights.
This makes it so you can turn down the jam volume by moving the fish weights out and while they have a bit of adhesion this is just right for not to much..Even so when you move them back in they have a great jamming sound..
The connection is solid when you want and to hold well without the high levels of adhesion. To me they sound like water flow with a bit of branches breaking. Or thunder with a slight metallic hue you can turn off anytime without having to charge the phone at almost 0 cost.
Make sure you put thread through the buttonhole and tie it well and leave the line of the thread or twine outside so it won't ever be permanent..I could remove them anyway only with considerable labor. Also use the right size button like 1/2 ".
I also tie the fish weights to my hat by threading through the fish line tube between both weights and then tying and sewing them to my hat with enough line to reach with a bit of slack.. If you don't want to have to keep losing hair when you cut it, like me, how so!...You can use more durable thread like awl or synth thread.
This method is far better for speech than any type of AN I ever tried, costing me tbousands in research..
Though this may seem to be simple, I searched 36 years to find it so I can tell you it wasn't obvious, the acoustics were tedious and abstract but trial and error often win the prize..I hope you get a lot of celebration out of the value of this method.
It makes it so you can have control of your sound anywhere you go. The one who snores most loud always falls asleep more often..unlike banjo mutes, on the other hand, it has worth! I'm sure it may save relationships.. and hopefully more of the 57% percent of the money lost otherwise to conversational distractions..
ANOTHER WAY TO CANCEL SOUND; ALL FREQUENCY SOUND LIKE THUNDER, AFTERSHOX, AND EARSTOPS (I RATE THE FISH WEIGHTS AND BUBBLE GUM HIGHER BECAUSE THEY'RE SIMPLER CHEAPER, AND MORE RELIABLE.)
Another option to much boost the shielding I found is to combine shielding with the plugs and wax with jamming around via Bluetooth 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.
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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. I bought cheaper ones for just $23 hee in 2026 and they're more durable than earlier editions.
Another method to stop noise I have used was with the ear stops in the wax but also an app called The White Noise Lite app.. a lot of people myself included had never thought a lot of usual common white noise.
Mice given the sound in their ears develop high cholesterol, where's the anti cheese. Or with Covid where they would stop their nose people would start to develop "severe" behavioral symptoms in just a week.
In a way this might seem no more severe than wearing lots of heavy clothes in winter and not impossible to imagine just being strong about it. Certainly most people would rather listen to no sound with no white noise than white noise even with sound, with sound itself only number three.
For this reason and librarian marms trying to slow me up if I was listening to music or white noise either one, I was not a fan of white noise for stopping other sound.
Even so the ear plug method works quite well and one day while I was on the web I decided to try White Noise Lite, and to my surprise it was a thrill..
This is more natural white noise like a thunderstorm, rain on the water, the wind, ocean waves etc and you can change between them. This is a major boost because nobody wants to listen to the sound of Eureka at a thousand miles per hour to mop up all the sound around.
I found and what I like the most about this is I can alternate the thunderstorm with other types of sound that are constant like for example an airplane or even a train sound or actually the sound of the rails.
I think thunder or wave sounds or rain maybe actually good for your health because heredity is stored environment and people don't get to listen to these sounds as often as they used to!
At any rate when you alternate the constant sound with the more changing sound I consider this to be better for my health because you're sort of exercising your awareness and then relaxing it instead of flexing and flexing hour after hour.
This also needs less volume if you use it with the ear stops and the wax.
I tell you when I'm with people I'm using the AR and AN I'd much rather listen to the sound of thunder or constant sound sometimes and also alternating with music than a constant sound.
This is also much easier than making a headset with rhe band as I described. One beautiful thing about listening to the thunderstorm is that while the thunder is loud the other sound of rain with it also jams out other noise even though it seems to be not even loud at all I can't even hear outside sound.
While my improved later best method was the fish weights as above for use of this you may like to alternate sounds like thunder that change a lot with sounds that are more constantly blue frequency sound, and also with music this gives you more change in your audio and yet it's just jamming sound but when you listen too much round sound even like the blue sound or the Thunder it's really kind of a relief to hear more sharp sounds you can know what are like music.
And by alternating all three you give your brain more chance to be energized. And of course like while you're waiting to talk to somebody you can mute all your audio and then simply turn it on when they arrive and listen to them with the AI SR "filter as your shield".
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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).
You really can completely jam out conversation with these methods, 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.
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. This is how the fish weights are good, a bit of sound multiplied up a lot by the wax inside the sound event.
You have real control of what you listen 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.
. Here a PS seems just right, why wait?
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. It's 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...
While real augmented reality like this is on the way, here in 2025 you can actually now Buy products like the Vuzix Ultralight or Transcribe Glass which can now use speech recognition with replacement words so you can listen to kinder words if you like. This maybe useful for people who are dealing with those such as those who want to criticize an unhealthy ways that are of reduced value.. this is a form of AR augmented reality and it's considered to be perfect for people who are living with events either caused by distractions or people who may seem tedious and repetitive otherwise.
The speech recognition with the custom word replacement list of these glasses can also be used with creative aps. And I think of this like my music moms if I call my mom once and again often I'm twins, she sez about recordings for musicians.. they're more valuable not as a crutch but as an inspiration for more creative and beautiful events.
As AR becomes more powerful I can imagine where it would size up any situation where you want answers and suggest to you the best answers it can arrive at, A sort of conversational bodyguard or guardian angel.
Currently a $2.50 piece of software can out compete every Grand Master in a chess match.
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.
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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.
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 flexable so you can position them just right on your face and this jams out a lot of the sound in summer.
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I've tended to graduate away from using the Aftershox before I feel like I could use them with jamming sounds because I thought they 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!
When you combine this with the ear stops and the adhesive you 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 leave feeling as good as when 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.
Another option may be Google's Adaptive Listening which is basically the same thing with a fancy name but you have to buy 6.0 pixel phones or higher with buds like Pixel Buds. Right now Pixel phones like this are at least $100 used on eBay and the Pixel Buds are also at least 50.
This is assuming it would work and turn the volume up loud enough to do it which often you'll find it won't and also that could set up your phone and your buds anytime there's noise which often isn't on our jet or train schedule, as a train roars by above us! And to keep both the phone and the buds charged and all the other stuff. The best way would be a simple all-in-one headset..noise is simple enough to stop, most may hope!
We almost may have it in reach. At any rate to be able to find the buds I recommend duct taping them around the outside and then punching a hole through the tape and looking them together with color coded streamer.
Good news is the new AI speech recognition apps are good enough to recognize speech from about 15 ft or perhaps more. My app is called Write by Voice and it seems to have a larger custom word list than the Voice Notebook plus better recognition.
Unlike other apps I use also like Voice Aloud or Speech notes, it does have good speech recognition but it also has the custom word list.
For using it to filter in and filter out conversation well, both a great custom word list and higher-level speech recognition is essential.
And this is a good way to filter out the general words with AN then with the words with the speech recognition and the custom word list.
One really valuable feature of Write by Voice is about how on the custom word list you can use a blank space where you press the space bar to remove the curse word. With the Voice Notebook app this was not allowed and you have to put something there which might remind you of a bad word. With the Write by Voice app you have just a simple small blank space with nothing there to replace the word you don't want.
This way words that maybe common but have no value are removed more easily and replaced with words you might love because you can do this over and over with just one space instead of some kind of symbol or letter like dots for each instead of the need to fill the space like some apps have, this makes it easy to remove all the curse words you want, and not just replace it with a another word also valuable, and this is a way to replace higher speed words.
An easy way to find words that you might want to replace is to watch an app like social media that might have all the words you want to remove for real life.
If you try the Write by Voice app I highly recommend it but also keep trying to recognize the speech because it only takes about 3 or 4 minutes for it to become good enough at it to recognize your speech from across the room.
At first it only seemed as good as the other apps for speech recognition but with the AI wow it quickly improves! Unlike a lot of the other speech recognition it's also offline if you want it. This can be valuable to keep from getting hacked when you go in a public place and you're otherwise having to connect up to an "external outernet internet".
About AN itself for the third part of this method, chances are it will continue to improve to overcome speech. I'm still waiting for software because the net may already have mostly!
Now that viable speech recognition is almost completely here as well as the custom word list, AN would be the third level possible of this method of limiting outside audio events you didn't sign up anywhere to accept. For now, for speech however, all the AN earbuds I tried are total junk (up to April 2026). Over ear phones only work for speech by stuffing inside, why pay hundreds for stuffing?
Keep watching out for improvements with AN as it gets cheaper and more powerful, the reviews for some of the $40 AN earbuds say that the noise reduction is dramatic like 50 decibels. Sounds good!
PS NO it doesn't! Using the fish weights and ear wax method is my best yet. It WORKS, and while I may continue R and D, no other method yet has yet passed the level of its value.
About Transcribe Glass there seems to be hype about it, I've already waited 6 months and no sign of it other than some other vendor who has upped it to $400 almost, as if by either making an agreement with the original inventor or else having bypassed them to get a lot more money supposedly because of the hype and if you're not interested in paying them an extra $400 just like me I'm interested in not being interested in this!
Far from an absolute genius who's invented this all it really is in essence a small video and a microphone and speech recognition. But a microphone and speech recognition is now viable with any cell phone and many AI speech recognition apps like the Write by Voice, so that only leaves a way to make it easy to wear and easy enough for it to always transcribe the conversation.
If you're like me and you've waited for this a while, I thought the price would go down quite quickly because all Transcribe Glass is is mostly off the shelf hardware and software just scaled down to fit and look good.
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When they say in the ads that people who can't hear well when they would try to use the cell phone to go back and forth in the conversation with their phone they say that when you put the view right in front of your eye and nobody can ask you why you're doing it or anything it's a major morale boost..
Others are saying that anybody who knows about the state of the art of speech recognition microphones on cell phones knows that devices like Transcribe Glass will be useless at worst and somewhat viable at best.
But they weren't considering that good speech recognition was on the way and now it becomes obvious to me as I've tried out the new AI speech recognition, the real problem of this limit was not the microphone but rather just the software that wouldn't process the words.
The only other problem is your cell phone inn't easy reach to see what the other person is saying.
And if Transcribe Glass is indeed only $100 I would buy more and more especially as they improve them with chatbots and ways to stop spot "not with ultrasound! the hound is around!" (Did you know a dog can tell if a person is dishonest and if the person doesn't do them well they often just lose interest in them. They can hear ultrasound well so I turned down my MP3 as I walk past the dog and gradually he started taking musical dog naps.. I think cats relax more when they hear sounds like music that are more like the sounds they used to communicate Giant Purrs!).
But for now if you want to have a great way to filter your conversations including online apps with lots of cursing and bad habits I see like social media this can be a great way to improve your ability to cleanse and still do business with them without picking up on the problems they have. Much of the internet seems downbeat like social media and so I'm interested in maintaining more of my resistance to conversational distractions and keeping them cleansed out.
As I say, Transcribe Glass seems to be simple hardware and software perhaps soon to come down from the $1,000 or more some vendors are trying to charge.
And the real limitation of people who were hard of hearing trying to use the cell phones speech recognition turns out not to be because they couldn't use it but rather because speech recognition up to this time hasn't been up to the task.
While this is no surprise..15 years ago it was considered to be virtually worthless, I considered it to have real potential then and now..
And any event a much cheaper though somewhat less snazzy method than glasses like for Transcribe Glass is to use the same software with AI speech recognition and combine it with a simple over the shoulder cell phone holder like with a bendable wire, you can get these for $20. If you have good enough AN good enough speech recognition, a custom word list in that speech recognition, and also a way to read it out ahead of you, this is a cheap and viable way for anyone to often dramatically reduce conversational distractions, including the ability to deal effectively with difficult people and also to boost your more positive events. This is a way to get 57% of your money back, probably more if you're poor that's otherwise being continually drained away from you each day by the conversational distractions.
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 but more on your terms.
When you want to listen so you can be considerate of both you and your neighbors.. this seems to be an easy way to understand most of the conversation yet not be run over sometimes by 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.
While this may have major value for all kinds of relationships keep in mind that experts don't recommend use of speech recognition for any important conversation, this may soon improve however.
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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.
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”.
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..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.
And this has a second valuable use, that you can actually hear your music when you listen to your mp3! The sellers of hear through audio phones like the Aftershockz say to listen to them with ear stops in and believe it or not this is how you can hear the music pretty well .
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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…
Phones And Chatbots Building Your Own Audio AR
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 like for telemarketers.
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 both for telephone and portable speech recognition use.
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 an electronic prototype made for perhaps $1,000 for "discount" prototyping. 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) with this type of custom word event, 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.
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.
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While you may need more hardware for being able to see what they say watch me talk about it! Which I certainly will as soon as Transcribe Glass is on sale!
Currently though just for usual use walking around out in stores I use my phone on the phone holder in front of me with the AI continuous speech recognition app, and this works quite well. But for phone conversations you're dealing with strangers and you want the best speech recognition built into the machine for this for the highest speed and reliability. Speed of your machine can be important here and soon your cell phone will have 100 mousepower.
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 mutch reduce their stress and their debt would go down. "The right to listen to what you may if you want silence want 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 believed 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 goes 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, is 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 employees 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, and 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 for training costs. 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 relatives words you improve 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 and harmful events like of behavior have been found to be as stressful to the brain as physical pain. 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”, 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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