{"id":125060,"date":"2021-03-07T07:36:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T07:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=125060"},"modified":"2021-03-07T07:36:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T07:36:35","slug":"alphabet-launches-wolverine-project-to-develop-voice-extraction-system-from-crowd-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/alphabet-launches-wolverine-project-to-develop-voice-extraction-system-from-crowd-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet launches Wolverine project to develop voice extraction system from crowd noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A research structure for Google-owned Alphabet, X lab, is\u00a0working\u00a0on phenomenal hearing aids.<\/p>\n<p>X lab simultaneously promotes a variety of, sometimes fantastic projects like &#8220;moon shots&#8221; or airplane video monitoring of fish.\u00a0The project, codenamed Wolverine, aims to create a system that makes voices stand out from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the device will be quite portable &#8211; in the standard size of fully wireless headphones.\u00a0Since 2018, several prototypes of these earbuds have already been created.\u00a0Several microphones are installed in their case at once &#8211; and so far these are all available technical details.<\/p>\n<p>To create a novelty, specialists from Starkey Hearing Technologies and Eargo joined the development team.\u00a0The team is known to have succeeded in isolating individual sounds using a &#8220;sound splitting mechanism&#8221; that adapts to the environment of the listener.\u00a0The closest analogue of the Wolverine system can be considered the Whisper artificial intelligence hearing aids, which were declassified last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research structure for Google-owned Alphabet, X lab, is\u00a0working\u00a0on phenomenal hearing aids. X lab simultaneously promotes a variety of, sometimes fantastic projects like &#8220;moon shots&#8221; or airplane video monitoring of fish.\u00a0The project, codenamed Wolverine, aims to create a system that makes voices stand out from the crowd. Apparently, the device will be quite portable &#8211; [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/alphabet-launches-wolverine-project-to-develop-voice-extraction-system-from-crowd-noise\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":125061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-125060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}