It's the perennial "cocktail party problem" - standing in a room full of people, drink in hand, trying to hear what your fellow guest is saying. In fact, human beings are remarkably adept at holding a ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have just unveiled a prototype that might finally fix one of the most annoying parts of being in a crowd: actually hearing the person standing next to you.

When a group of friends gets together at a bar or gathers for an intimate dinner, conversations can quickly multiply and mix, with different groups and pairings chatting over and across one another.

BU researchers develop a brain-inspired algorithm that can help people with hearing loss pick out conversations in noisy, crowded spaces. When a group of friends gets together at a bar or gathers for ...