FritzforPaul
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LOL..well I am impressed! Are ya rich yet?

I get that it's immensly annoying and would make it hard to comprehend anything being said, but the article claims that: "The human brain, hearing this echo effect, becomes immediately confused and interprets it as silence." So you shouldn't be able to hear anything at all, and that's what I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around...
I shouldn't joke because it's becoming a reality.
I know how to stop it...
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I shouldn't joke because it's becoming a reality.
I know how to stop it...
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This would definitely stop it.
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So it's really a method of determining who the weak minded are ... LOLIt doesn't make the sound go away, as in all of a sudden no one can hear you, it confuses your mind and makes it difficult to speak.
That's not what the article says though...
I'm an audio engineer. ... deliberately inverted out of phase
(inverted oscillations), resulting in a "zero sum" kind of thing.
Bose also used this type of technology on their noise cancelling headphones.
The researchers say the tool is intended to be used in quiet spaces, such as libraries, to stop people from speaking. But in a published paper, they also seem to have bigger plans in mind:
I shouldn't joke because it's becoming a reality.
I know how to stop it...
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Wait, what? The human brain can't handle a 0.2 second delayed echo? Really? I find that hard to believe actually.
Edit: Could someone with the video editing skillz try to run the audio track of a song or something twice over eachother with a 0.2 second delay to test this. If it somehow made me unable to hear anything my mind would be blown...
It's true. I work at a call center, and every once in a while there is an echo of my voice. Even though I've said the opening script ten thousand times, it'll stop me dead in my tracks and I'll forget what I was saying.
But you hear the echo right? It's not like you're talking but are unable to hear the sound?