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Active noise-cancelling headphones plus a white noise generator, is where it's at. These are the best headphones I've used: https://amzn.com/B00X9KV0HU https://amzn.com/B00X9KV0HU They come in Apple- or Android-compatible versions. They won't cancel everything. In general they're great with anything constant (hums/motors/fans etc.) but the more impulsive (in the physics sense) a sound wave is, the more of it seeps through. Human speech I find it damps it pretty significantly but not all the way. That's where white noise comes in. From that dampened state, a very quiet level of white noise is enough to perceptually drown out any loudmouths who have no concept of an "indoor voice." Use something like simplynoise.com or an app. For Android I like Noise Machine - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.synopsia.noisemachine https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.synopsia.n... For iPhone I believe there's an app literally called White Noise. Not affiliated with any of these people. Don't use music... that's just as distracting as someone talking. YMMV