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For delicate listening applications, a pair of headphones with directionally enhanced sound reproduction, based upon a spread array antenna feed, to allow several points of triangulation, electronically aggregated to a single pair of stereo signals.
As you move individual array points you get a stronger
signal in one ear and an attenuation of the signal to the other ear, to allow you to direct searchers more accurately to what you are seeking.
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There are headphone/microphone-array combinations that allow for very good spatial localisation of auditory stimuli (analog version used already in WWI for locating ships in fog). You seem to propose something else, but i can't figure out what. |
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Edit: By the way, with something called the Head Related Transfer Function you can also evoke a sense of up and down, making the auditory localisation true 3d. |
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Not a bad idea, but something like a sonar display might work better. If you get the software to remember sounds (the sonar sweep) for say 30 seconds, you could then click on the sonar blob and hear what the sound was thus confirming the source type, direction and range to target. |
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With directional non-memory phones, you're reliant on the sound source repeating. |
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I'm trying to accurately relay spatial data as sound cues to what is arguably our best sense for locating things... hearing. |
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In this case, I'm using computerised audio representation of alterations in spatial reference grids to intensify or attenuate a "signature sound" in order to assist human hearing to more easily and rapidly locate a remote, mobile beacon. |
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... or you could just buy another tv-remote. |
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