Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation

Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation

  • April 12, 2018
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Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation

People are remarkably good at focusing their attention on a particular person in a noisy environment, mentally “muting” all other voices and sounds. Known as the cocktail party effect, this capability comes natural to us humans. However, automatic speech separation — separating an audio signal into its individual speech sources — while a well-studied problem, remains a significant challenge for computers.

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