OrCam Hear: Top 200 Inventions of 2024

“People who have trouble understanding speech in noise simply don’t attend social events,” says Tal Rosenwein, CEO of OrCam, noting that social isolation can lead to depression. The company’s OrCam Hear helps eliminate noise, literally. Trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of audio, the AI-powered headphones, due out by the end of the year, are capable of isolating voices among the noise of a busy room. Users move a dot on the screen in the phone app to focus on who they want to hear; the system picks up voice coming from that direction while suppressing background noise.

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