Hear what matters. Hush the rest.
Hush is built for sound sensitive people — students, workers and anyone whose focus gets hijacked by chewing, keyboards or traffic. Instead of blocking everything, you pick exactly which sounds to suppress and keep the rest of the world audible.
Selective noise supression for sound sensitive university students
Sounds don't just distract, they take over.
1 in 5 US students suffer from misophonia
That's 3.88 million people
3 in 4 were affected by specific sounds within the last 3 days.
132 of 178 early Hush survey respondents
Up to 78.5% feel occasional irritation from common noises
Mild or subthreshold symptoms — Misophonia Research Fund
“I mean as long as I can successfully leave the environment, or the person doesn’t get annoyed or offended that I plug my ears with my fingers, it’s generally successful.''”
“'It’s depressingly isolating, I avoid going anywhere where possible and it ruined my relationship with my parents as a child. I can’t do things others can as it feels like torture so I stay home wishing I could have a life. ”
“''I really want a program SPECIFICALLY for misophonia that can filter out specific triggers in real time on PC and on Android so I can watch media or play games with trigger sounds present, but removed by such a software.”
What we're building, and how you can help.
Not total disconnect, selective control. Most audio tools make you choose between hearing everything or blocking everything. Hush is being built for a third option: reducing specific trigger sounds while keeping enough of the world around you.
A live preview of the interface.
Click on the quick modes to imediately toggle a pre-determined set of sounds on or off. These sound have been chosen because of how often they occur in the given environment.
Press the bottom bar to suppresses every trigger at once. This is for the moments when everything is too much and you just want some peace.
HEAR WHAT MATTERS. HUSH THE REST.
SOUNDS TO SUPPRESS
Toggle any sound on to suppress it. Everything else still reaches you, enabling you to have a conversation or stay fully aware of your surroundings.
Try the keyboard-suppression prototype directly in your browser.
Runs entirely in this tab. No download, and no audio ever leaves your device.
Raise this if the result sounds hollow rather than simply quieter.
Idle.
Prototype: 16 kHz audio, tuned for keyboard and typing sounds.
Built with care by people who understand.
Yana IvkovaCEO
UC Berkeley · Astrophysics & Cognitive Science
Derya MuezzinogluCMO
UC Berkeley · Philosophy & Economics
Paul AubaillyCDO
TU Delft · Aerospace Engineering
Serena LimCTO
Monash Univ. · Mechatronics & Commerce
Built with users, for users
Hush is shaped by interviews, surveys, and testing with people who experience misophonia and sound sensitivity. Their feedback guides what we build, helping us focus on the problems that matter most.
Research Advisor · Duke University
We consult with a Duke researcher specialising in auditory neuroscience and misophonia, translating clinical insights on trigger sounds and emotional responses into the way we design and evaluate our selective sound suppression technology.
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