Vibrating backpacks for deaf and hard of hearing people will be offered from the 2023-2024 season at the Philharmonie de Paris. The equipment, a connected backpack controlled by an app, picks up ambient sounds using artificial intelligence.
It "identifies everything that happens in the audio spectrum" and transcribes the sounds in the form of vibrations. After "eight months of testing", these backpacks will be deployed next season "to be operational on the entire offer of the Philarmonie in 2024/2025"