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A new AI can focus on one voice in a crowd

The program can identify and suppress background noise using both visual and audio cues

people at a cocktail party

LISTENING IN  A new AI filters out background conversations and other noise in videos to isolate what a single person on screen is saying.

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By Maria Temming

- More than 2 years ago

Much like someone listening to a conversation at a crowded party, a new artificial intelligence can tune out background noise in videos to hear what a particular person on screen is saying.