Aide

An Aide is a small audio device placed in the ear canal that serves as a remote earpiece for a comm.

Description

An Aide is a small audio device placed in the ear canal similar to a Commdot. It serves as a remote earpiece for a comm, and is therefore a useful link to a computer system when a person wants unobtrusive communications. By bone conduction, it also acts as a microphone for a comm if necessary. Normally an aide is programmed from the output port of a computer, using whatever software is proprietary to that model of aide. The aide is a passive device, responding to environmental cues in a predetermined way. It could screen the wearer's comm calls, for instance, so that only people on a certain list can get through while the user is sleeping. Specialized aides also have the ability to translate a language for the wearer. (This works best if the speaker pauses every few seconds to let the aide have time to whisper the translation, and if there is only one speaker at a time.) Dedicated translation hardware is more efficient at this task. A typical aide is simply placed in the ear canal, but if the buyer wishes, outpatient surgery can have it implanted behind an ear and linked directly to the auditory nerves.

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• Marc Miller. Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996), 65.