SoundScope

SoundScope is a sound-awareness tool that shows you where a sound came from, what it was, and who said what. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, or anyone in a loud space, like emergency operators at a rescue site, or birdwatchers in an ambient forest, sound can lose its precise direction as we ordinarily perceive it. SoundScope gives this direction back by sharing; or transferring, the burden of auditory perception to your eyes. A Seeed Studio reSpeaker XVF3800 (4 mics) hears each sound a fraction of a millisecond apart; physics (SRP-PHAT with echo handling) turns those delays into a direction, and an Orbbec Gemini 2 depth camera marks the exact spot in 3D on a live heat map. No image detection decides where a sound came from. Meta models add the meaning: - Muse Spark 1.3 names the sound from its spectrogram and a camera crop of the spot, and answers plain-language searches like "when did my phone ring?", jumping back to the saved scene and audio. - Muse Voice Transcribe turns speech into color-coded subtitles at the bottom of the screen, with an arrow showing who is talking, and alerts you when someone says your name. - SAM 3.1 outlines the object at the sound's location. When it isn't sure, it doesn't raise a false alarm: it shows a calm "Possible doorbell?" card, and your Yes/No answer teaches it that sound for next time. You can name any sound or person and it remembers. Claps are recognized locally for free, and a budget cap keeps model spending low. Uses: Deaf and hard-of-hearing users, search and rescue (which way to dig), birdwatching, and finding a lost phone. Built with Python, OpenCV, NumPy, and the Meta APIs. It is a sound-awareness aid, not a medical device.