Noisy snacker? This AI helps you to keep watching your movie

Everyone watches and snacks much more during the pandemic. An unfortunate combo while watching a movie, this AI will solve it for you!

Yep, the corona pounds are flying off. Hanging out on the couch with a bag of chips to watch a movie is one of the few weekly highlights during the corona crisis. YouTube is then a popular channel to watch a lot of vlogs or videos. Difficult though, to keep track of everything while munching on crunchy snacks. The video is then difficult to follow due to all the cracking. A few bright minds from Vietnam have come up with a solution for this.

Release the Kraken

The solution, of course, is not to turn off YouTube. No, you’re building a system for it that’s smart enough to detect your crackles and automatically turn on YouTube’s subtitles. Very handy, so no reason to stop watching a movie. Bliss Interactive and Happiness Saigon helped us out and created this AI. This is an advertising agency, which coincidentally or not, also works for Lay’s.

Let’s face it, this is a real first world problem. But we’ve all been there. Nothing so annoying to sit with your dirty greasy fingers on your volume buttons. Well, that has been resolved.

The designers have for a long time followed people all over the world who were chewing chips while watching a video on YouTube. That data was then used to build this model using machine learning techniques. When installed and given access to a Chrome tab playing a YouTube video, the extension will automatically enable optional subtitles. This must be available.

Can it be fooled?

Our colleagues at Gizmodo tested it and it worked surprisingly well. The microphone of your laptop has to be pretty close to hear the sound while watching a movie. But it also detects crackers, rice cakes and other similar evening snacks.

Really helpful? No. Cool technology? Yes. You can try it yourself here. Enjoy your meal.