{"id":984005,"date":"2026-01-08T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984005"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:53:16","slug":"from-music-to-mind-reading-ai-startups-bet-on-earbuds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/08\/from-music-to-mind-reading-ai-startups-bet-on-earbuds\/","title":{"rendered":"From music to mind reading: AI startups bet on earbuds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI companies are on the hunt to design the ideal device to deliver AI&#8217;s superpowers, and some new enterprises are convinced that headphones or earbuds are the way.<\/p>\n<p>Startups have for a while tried to beef up headphones beyond their basic functions, like listening to music and making phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a decade ago, tech startups Waverly Labs and Mymanu added real-time translation to that list, and Google quickly followed suit, creating a voice-activated AI assistant in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI companies are on the hunt to design the ideal device to deliver AI&#8217;s superpowers, and some new enterprises are convinced that headphones or earbuds are the way. Startups have for a while tried to beef up headphones beyond their basic functions, like listening to music and making phone calls. Nearly a decade ago, tech startups Waverly Labs and Mymanu added real-time translation to that list, and Google quickly followed suit, creating a voice-activated AI assistant in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}