Earshot
Earshot turns a spare phone into a listener for your home
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When it hears the smoke alarm, the doorbell, the baby or a sound you describe in your own words, everyone in your household gets an alert, wherever they are. Audio never leaves the phone.
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PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Security
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Home
- Artificial Intelligence
- Home Automation
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Partial The alert and household UI is simple, and open-vocabulary audio models like CLAP can match described sounds. Reliable always-on, on-device listening on both iOS and Android for safety-relevant sounds like smoke alarms is harder and needs tuning.
What it would actually take: The stack would be native mobile apps (Swift and Kotlin) with background audio capture, an on-device classifier such as a YAMNet or CLAP model converted to Core ML or TFLite, and push notifications. The hard parts are keeping background listening alive under OS power limits and getting acceptable false-positive and false-negative rates for safety sounds, which needs ML evaluation work and real-world data.
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Launched 292 days after the earliest competitor.
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