begood Posted October 15, 2010 Report Posted October 15, 2010 (edited) Interesting new technology.Squarehead's new system is like bullet-time for sound. 325 microphones sit in a carbon-fiber disk above the stadium, and a wide-angle camera looks down on the scene from the center of this disk. All the operator has to do is pinpoint a spot on the court or field using the screen, and the Audioscope works out how far that spot is from each of the mics, corrects for delay and then synchronizes the audio from all 315 of them. The result is a microphone that can pick out the pop of a bubblegum bubble in the middle of a basketball game.... [...] Audio from all microphones is stored in separate channels, so you can even go back and listen in on any sounds later. Want to hear the whispered insult that caused one player to lose it and attack the other? You got it. Schneier on Security: Picking a Single Voice out of a Crowd Edited October 15, 2010 by begood Quote
begood Posted October 15, 2010 Author Report Posted October 15, 2010 Catching taunts from foul-mouthed players is one application, but Audioscope could be used for more sinister purposes, too. Deployed at public gatherings, the super-mics could be zoomed in to eavesdrop on conversations between suspicious persons, or pretty much anyone the cops want to listen in on. Are you scared yet?Audio zoom picks out lone voice in the crowd - tech - 05 October 2010 - New ScientistSquarehead Technology Quote
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