--- --- Oct 30, 2024 # Ultra-Focused Hearing Help by [Chris Stokel-Walker](https://time.com/author/chris-stokel-walker/) ## Chris Stokel-Walker  “People who find it challenging to understand speech in noise just don’t attend social events,” says Tal Rosenwein, CEO at OrCam, noting that the social isolation can lead to depression. The company’s OrCam Hear helps cut through the noise—literally. Trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of audio, the AI-powered earbuds, which are set to be released by year’s end, are able to isolate voices amid the hubbub of a busy room. Users move a point around on the screen on a phone app to focus on who they want to hear; the system homes in on the voice coming from that direction, while tamping down background noise. **Buy Now:** OrCam Hear on [OrCam](https://fave.co/3BTWOl3) These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. OrCam Hear: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094548/orcam-hear/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094548/orcam-hear/"},"headline":"OrCam Hear: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T11:15:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:25.645Z","description":"Find out why OrCam Hear is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094548/orcam-hear/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9426da1ac54c9724/698a8a0a09208f1bc6422451/orcam-hear-best-inventions-1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Stokel-Walker","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-stokel-walker/"}],"creator":"Chris Stokel-Walker","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9426da1ac54c9724/698a8a0a09208f1bc6422451/orcam-hear-best-inventions-1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094548/orcam-hear/","name":"OrCam Hear: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]}] ```