If your headphones don’t have a transparency mode, there’s an app for that. The Safe Headphones app adds a transparency mode to basically any headphones.
This app basically adds transparency mode to any pair of headphones
This app will basically make it possible to hear your surroundings as you’re wearing your headphones. Its goal is to amplify the sound of your surroundings, so that you don’t get hit by a car or something like that.
How does it do this? Well, it uses the microphone(s) built into your headphones. If that’s not an option, the app can also use your phone’s microphones to do the same thing. That won’t exactly be useful if your phone is in your pocket, however. So you need either headphones with a microphone(s), or your phone has to be able to hear your surroundings aka not be in a pocket/backpack.
The app allows you to tweak ‘Volume Gain’, which is essentially the transparency level. There is also an option called ‘Filter Gain’ here, which will reduce most of the noise, but push through the ones that may be important, such as cars honking at you.
Walking around without a transparency mode can be dangerous
The worst thing you can do is stick a pair of headphones/earphones on/in your ears, and forget about the world. That is especially true if you’re driving your bike, walking on the side of the road, or something like that.
The best option would be to get a pair of headphones/earphones with transparency mode built in. If that’s not an option, well, this app is the second-best thing. It actually works decently well, it seems, so the least you can do is try it out.
Dark theme is also an option in this app, and the official images are included below. You’ll also find a download link below this paragraph (Google Play Store).
2023-10-24 15:05:00