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I have a different use case, involving wearing them in the house: listen to what my girlfriend says, use some ML to analyze whether I need to know it and if so, put it on the display.

She has a different "speech mode" than I: she speaks while I'm reading or washing the dishes or whatever, and sometimes it's to herself, sometimes to Siri, and sometimes it's something she wants me to know.

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There is a simple wetware solution, which is that she learns to say your name before saying something she wants you to know.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to train partners to use your name once they fall out of practice? It's like there is a negative reinforcement stimulus applied everytime they do use your name.

I noticed that my wife stopped using my name when it became more ambiguous as to who she was talking to because our kids are now older and conversations (really instructions and queries) are at the "adult content" level rather then "child content" level.

Retraining her will be challenging.

That would still require him to listen to his girlfriend talk. With all the technological innovation available today, nobody should have to listen to their girlfriends talk.

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