But yes. Just as our iPhone can alert us by detecting certain sounds such as running taps or a crying baby, we can train sound recognition so that notify us of almost anything. A most useful resource in many circumstances and from which we can take advantage quite easily.
An announcement with multiple applications of the most useful
The ability to recognize sounds with the iPhone is intended for those who have hearing difficulties and need to be aware of certain specific sounds. A crying baby, a doorbell, a siren or a horn are just a few examples of this. If we add the Apple Watch to the notification presented by the iPhone when it detects one of these sounds, as the recipient of said notification, we are faced with a system for detecting certain sounds at a distance.
And here we start to see some pretty interesting probabilities for this sound recognition. One option is for when we are concentrated listening to music with noise cancellation, but we must be aware of certain alerts. The other is when, due to our location in relation to the source of the sound, we can not hear it, for example, hearing the doorbell when we are at the back of our garden.
In all these cases, sound recognition can be really useful. How do we activate it? Very easy, we just have to follow these steps:
- We open the app Settings on our iPhone.
- We came in Accessibility.
- We came in sound recognition.
- we activate sound recognition.
- we play in sounds.
- We tap on the sounds we want to recognize.
- We activate your recognition.
But the interesting thing comes now. Can add custom ringtones to train the system to recognize exactly the sound that suits us. The process, although it is a bit long, is very simple. being inside Settings > Accessibility > sound recognitionthese are the steps to follow:
- we play in Appliance or custom doorbell.
- we play Continue.
- We give a name to the sound, for example “Microwave”.
- A few seconds before the sound is going to be heard we play on start listening.
- When the iPhone detects the sound itself, it will detect it, if it has detected another sound that is not the one we are interested in, we simply touch Ignore and keep listening. Having heard the correct sound, we play on save sound.
- Depending on whether we can make the appliance emit the same sound again or not, we can choose start listening to repeat the process or finish later to save your progress and repeat listening later.
Must complete listening to the sound a total of five times. Immediately afterwards, the system will inform us that the process may take a few more minutes and that it will send us a notification when it is ready to recognize the sound for which we have just trained it.
And that’s it. From now on, when our iPhone hears the sound for which we have trained it, we will receive a notification on our iPhone and also on the Apple Watch. As Apple reminds us, however, we shouldn’t rely on it for situations where damage may occur. That being said, being able to hear certain sounds even without hearing them has several really useful applications.
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