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Abstract

This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for improving the environmental awareness of a user of a wearable audio device. The present implementations more specifically relate to environment-aware signaling for wearable audio devices. In some aspects, a wearable audio device may include one or more speakers configured for audio playback, one or more microphones configured to detect sounds from the surrounding environment while the audio is concurrently being played back, and an environment awareness controller configured to record the sounds detected by the microphones and control one or more outputs of the wearable audio device based, at least in part, on the recorded sounds. More specifically, the environment awareness controller may activate or adjust such outputs to alert a user of the wearable audio device about the recorded sounds responsive to detecting a trigger condition associated with the alert.

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