--- title: Whispp: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 description: Find out why Whispp is one of the best inventions of 2024 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094886/whispp/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-10-30T11:15:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T11:54:33.954Z article:section: Business og:title: Whispp: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 og:description: Find out why Whispp made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094886/whispp/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt873c6311bdacf20e/698a9860e6e84af9bc2b99f1/whispp-best-inventions-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Whispp: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Whispp: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 twitter:description: Find out why Whispp made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt873c6311bdacf20e/698a9860e6e84af9bc2b99f1/whispp-best-inventions-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # An AI Solution for Stutters by [Harry Booth](https://time.com/author/harry-booth/) ## Harry Booth Booth is a reporter at TIME.  As someone who stutters, Joris Castermans, the CEO and founder of Dutch startup Whispp, knew whispering helps with fluency. Castermans undertook the “really labor intensive” work of creating a dataset of phrases in both spoken and whispered speech, and then used that data to train an AI model that transforms whispered and raspy utterances into natural sounding speech in real-time. Released in January, the [Whispp](https://whispp.com/) app allows users with a severe stutter or vocal disability to speak clearly on phone calls with less than half a second latency, empowering them “in their daily lives and work,” Casterman says. He adds that the company is working to expand into video call services and offer a solution for in-person conversations. **Download:** Whispp App for [iOS](https://fave.co/3C05zKz) | [Android](https://fave.co/4hlo3VV) 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094886/whispp/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094886/whispp/"},"headline":"Whispp: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T11:15:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:33.954Z","description":"Find out why Whispp is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094886/whispp/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt873c6311bdacf20e/698a9860e6e84af9bc2b99f1/whispp-best-inventions-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Harry Booth","jobTitle":"Booth is a reporter at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/harry-booth/"}],"creator":"Harry Booth","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt873c6311bdacf20e/698a9860e6e84af9bc2b99f1/whispp-best-inventions-2.jpg?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-2024/7094886/whispp/","name":"Whispp: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]}] ```