This AI headphone can listen to a single person in the crowd if you look at them

Get over noise cancellation and automatically adjusted sound controls in Apple Airpods, scientists at the University of Washington have developed a new headphone that can listen to a single person even in a crowd..

What the system then does is it targetedly cancels all other sounds in the environment and plays just the enrolled speakers voice in real-time..

To use the system, a person wearing off-the-shelf headphones with microphones taps a button while facing someone speaking..

The system then focuses on and plays back the speakers voice to the listener, even as they move around..

This research builds on the teams previous "semantic hearing" work, which allowed users to select specific sounds, such as birds or voices, while cancelling other environmental noises...