Testing My Speech Jammer In Public

I offered people $100 if they could read a paragraph from a book out loud. Things got a little crazy. Featuring superheros @VenusTheory and @RedMeansRecording.

Additional Camera: Beth Schaefer
B-Roll & Thumbnail Photo: Venus Theory

Timestompz:
0:00 - Intro
2:11 - How It Works (Sound Laser)
4:12 - How It Works (Delayed Auditory Feedback)
6:15 - The $100 Challenge
8:27 - Someone Was Immune!
9:57 - Ethics and bye

[sustomusickillsyoutube]

What have we definitely learned, here?

That no matter the circumstances, human beings are always capable of yelling "Fuck"

[projectdren]

You can train yourself to tune out the background voice. Source: I worked at an ATT call center for years and OFTEN people would call while on speaker phone and their volume loud. This produced the delay effect and it 100% trips people up for a couple weeks. After that your brain learns to phase it out.

[kylemccombmusic]

This would make such a cool interactive museum piece, imagine a microphone at a podium with the sound laser directly overhead

[iLostHurley]

They use this technology at the Vegas Sphere theater. Specifically for different languages so you can be hearing it in English and the person next to you can be listening in another language and neither of you can hear the other’s audio. Absolutely amazing tech.

[MicroAppleStudios]

The trick with the speech jammer, is to be sure and firm with your choice of words and to not let yourself be concerned with how you sound. Most get tongue tied because they can hear themselves and try to adjust their speaking voice while focusing on the jammer voice.

[DelTashlin]

As an ex actor who has had to recite lines from memory while having a fever, a twisted ankle, clogged ears, etc; I would love to know if that experience and ability would combat your sonic pressure. Also, pointing it at a singer while singing would also be intriguing.

[MichaelChin]

I feel like I'd fail the challenge without the jammer

[omegadragons]

istg an invisible version of this exists 1 foot away from me 24/7

[Emily_M]

Benn has started his supervillain arc. They finally pushed him too far.

[alexgrunde]

Back when I worked a call center job, the delayed feedback thing would sometimes happen with people on speaker phone. I had to perfect the art of ignoring anything my ears were hearing in order to be able to speak when it happened.

[Luvutoo]

I've heard a story that an engineer started delaying monitors when a stage crashed tried to steal the mic to bring up their own agenda. The delay was so disorienting the intruder got off the mic

[watchreadplayretro]

I cannot even concentrate when my bluetooth headphones are half a second out of sync with your lips, so reading to your speech jammer surely would be impossible.

fantastic stuff, great channel, enjoying so much here, cheers!

[MoosesValley]

I knew a guy (he was a customer that sometimes visit a business I ran) who would repeat everything you said as you were speaking - in real time, with a slight delay. He would guess / mumble what word you were saying next and then correct himself as he figured out the word. It was extremely hard to speak with this guy close by - most people would just stop talking. I have demonstrated what he did to many friends and work colleagues, and while I am nowhere near as good as the mirror speak as this guy was, they have all been stopped in their tracks and unable to speak further.

[MortenBN]

It is possible to train your yourself to deal with the delay of your own voice. In the military, the vehicle headsets in some of our armored vehicles (for intercom and radio) would have a delayed feedback. It's pretty stressful to have to deal with that while communicating important things like target coordinates etc. But you get used to having to force-filter it out. On the receiving end you can hear who has feedback loops because their rate of speech slows down.

[luke]

This is super cool! One note: Tartini tones are a psychoacoustic effect, but the audible sound generated by the speaker (called a parametric array) is physical. By that I mean the audible frequencies from the speaker are actually present in the sound wave rather than being "produced" by our brain. The effect here is instead called "generation of sound by ultrasound, " and it only happens for very high pressure sound waves (nonlinear acoustic waves), which in this case are the ultrasonic carrier waves, which is why the transducers draw so much current. The interaction itself, the audible sound, is relatively weak because it's generated by the air in front of the speakers, not the speakers themselves.

[gabrielfair]

Sonic speech jamming weapons were used by the police against the occupy wall Street speakers. It was wildly successful in disrupting the protests

[windrider]

I think this also works if you DON'T hear yourself.
I often have to attend group calls for my work using Slack, and since I work from home, I use noise cancelling earphones. But they're so good at blocking sound that I can't hear myself speaking, so I have to take it out from one ear during calls so I can speak coherently.

[dylandog]

I have to do this constantly while at work (airport). We regularly speak on radios while having other radios on the same frequency nearby. You hear you own voice on a half second delay and have to keep it together because you’re speaking with flight crews. Challenging but fun once you master it. When i got the job i would recite common pilot relay phrases while listening to talk radio/podcasts and try not to stumble over my words. Being able to communicate clearly in a loud environment without tripping over your words is incredibly useful.

[cmerr]

Are you really the guy who invented this?? Thank you for helping me ace every college speech I ever gave. Seriously I crushed all of them - I was the best speaker in any class I took and it wasn't close.

I saw your "speech jammer" when I was in college. I don't have the skills or ability to make one - but I looked into it. Someone somewhere (I think the creator was japanese) wrote a program that you can download to your computer that works on the same principle. You speak into your computer microphone and your voice comes out of your headphones on a delay you control.

I used this program whenever I had to give a speech in school. I still use this technique for business presentations today. All you do is plan what you want to present, practice, and when you think you're ready - turn on the speech jammer and run it again. As your video showed - it's possible to get through it, but you have to be EXTREMELY confident. It's elevated my speaking skills a ton! Thanks again - Subscribed!

[Catto_Ninja]

A cartoon villain would 100% create something like this, I can already see a platypus with a brown hat trying to track you down. Take care around platypuses man.