Jaden Schaefer

And those are in over a third of U.S.

households.

Meta recently added, of course, a feature to their Ray-Ban smart glasses.

They use a five microphone array that essentially isolates a voice in a noisy environment.

So if you're talking to someone in a bar or at

You know, in some sort of noisy store or market and you look at them, it has these five microphones, isolates their voice and in your ear will amplify just their voice.

So effectively, it is, you know, turning your head into a directional microphone.

Google also started testing audio overviews in June, which is, you know, covering the search results into conversational summaries.

And Tesla, of course, is weaving XAI's grok into its vehicles to create a voice driven assistant that can help you when you're doing navigation or even like climate control, that kind of stuff.

You could just talk to it and say, hey, like, you know, turn the heat up, etc.

So big tech, I think right now is not the only one that is betting really big on audio.

There is a collection of startups that are chasing the same idea.

There's, you know, some of them that have, you know, been successful and others that have it feels like,

failed extraordinarily, including Humane's AI pin, which burned through hundreds of millions of dollars before essentially becoming a bit of a cautionary tale for screenless wearables.

There's, of course, the Friend AI pendant.

This is a necklace that you wear around your neck.

It got famous because the CEO bought Friend.com for like $6 million and basically blew

their entire fundraising round on the domain name.

And with that, their necklace is essentially just sitting there and it records your life and it keeps you company.

And, you know, some people are curious about it.