Google researchers have developed a deep-learning system designed to help computers better identify and isolate individual voices within a noisy environment.
Source: arstechnica.com
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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