I’m an autismo who can’t control the volume of her voice or even tell when she’s yelling, so this might actaully be useful
These should be mandatory for all men to wear in public.
Some Lemmy users might benefit from putting these on their hands, too
gamers reinvent the stenomask
Why not using a throat mic? They are cheaper.
Voice damping is the main feature of the device, not the microphone.
With a throat mic you can talk without making a sound (if you train).
Huh, that’s really neat!
How? Can you whisper in a throat mic? (Genuine question)
While silly looking, this is a great idea.
It looks like a muzzle. I know a few folks who need this (gamer or not)
I don’t speak on Voice chat though, mainly because many gamers online are racist (and sexist) pigs. Back in the day I did used to use TeamSpeak to talk to others in games and they both be racist toward me, and make fun of my voice saying I sound like a girl.
So, text only from now on, if reading is too hard especially with spelling mstakes if I’m doing it quickly in game, fuck them.
I do think this could have some use for me though, particularly with private calls which I’d prefer other people to not hear the other side of, though it’s still very hard to justify it since it just looks way too silly.
Edit: Oh and it’s way too fucking expensive, but of course it is, it’s targeted at “gamers” they’re a crowd that is stupid enough to buy anything even if it is insanely overpriced, they already do it with their overpowered gaming PCs, so it’s not surprising they’d do it with their accessories too.
It took me years to find gaming buddies who aren’t racist shitbags and we still have to punt the occasional edgelord who decides to get up in someone’s face with that shit. Not a single one of my remaining discord communities is gaming focused, those all ended up being Superfund levels of toxic. Hobby and tech communities though? Plenty of good friends there that I play games with occasionally.
Yeah, I do have friends who I play online games with. Though I still don’t speak because I’m still very self-conscientious about my voice, and I know it’s stupid, but it’s just how I feel. The only people I do talk with in Voice chat or phone calls are the friends I know in real life.
conservative Americans be like
This would make a great gag gift!
Pun always intended
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for valorant players
I just wish someone put serious effort into a microphone that worked with a mask so people wearing masks were easier to understand.
There are a lot of people who speak at conferences who still wear masks. I get it, even if you weren’t worried about COVID, in the pre-COVID times a lot of people were out for a week after going to a conference / convention because of all the germs being passed around.
But, even with professional speakers and professional microphones, the audio just sounds muddy when the speaker is wearing a mask.
If they’re up on a stage by themselves speaking, and no one is within 10 meters from them, as most public speaking scenarios are, then why the fuck are they still wearing a mask? Take it off you unprofessional fuck.
Do you still, in 2024, not understand how airborne illnesses like COVID spread?
No, I understand how they are spread. Why do you ask?
Then you understand why being 10 meters away from other people doesn’t matter?
Some people have hearing or cognitive impairments and use lip reading to understand people speaking at conferences. Ironically, wearing a mask during a conference speaking event is ableist
I think you may be overestimating the size of room most convention speakers address. 2m from panelist to front row of audience is normal.
Im not gonna fuckin lie, I looked into buying one of these FOR WEEKS cus of my college dorm.
250 something dollars. Im good.
250 is ridiculous, just buy a lavalier mic and put a face mask on at that point
A regular facemask won’t dampen sound much though.
Stuff 3 socks in mouth first.
That is way too expensive for a product like this, that also might not work for its intended use (if their nose isn’t fully covered like in the picture, I’d expect the screaming to leak out quite a bit. Might’ve worked for my idea of using it for call privacy (speaking softly) but still that’s way too much for something that’ll probably only be useful for that niche use-case.
I mean it could be useful in dorms and shared room situations.
imagine not censoring the company’s name, they paid Facebook for the ad, they didn’t pay you
Is there… Is there a matching blindfold? Asking for a friend.
i guess the equivalent for the eyes would be a vr headseat, since it makes it impossible for people outside to know what you’re looking at (i think, i dont know if the pc’s monitor shows what the person is seeing as i do not have a vr headset)
bro it better come with a ballgag and chastity cage too
It also comes with a gamer buttplug and cat ears.
For haptic feedback and headset weight distribution, of course
Wow - grandmaster accessories already!
Okay jokes aside this is actually kind of a great idea
Combine it with the semi-adjustable GAMER wrist-proximity-fixation devices (also available in plush) as well as the the GAMER lumination-induced eye strain block face-covering mask device for best results.
Just buy a gag, it makes saying a slur more difficult, saving yourself from bans
Why do we want to save these people from bans? They need to be removed from the community, if from society altogether. Better for them to say it out loud than to think it quietly, otherwise these people will quietly ruin our lives one step at a time and we won’t realize it as they’re doing it.