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Neural Net Makes Eavesdropping Breakthrough

Kevin Poulsen writes on 27B Stroke 6:

Government-funded researchers have discovered a mathematical solution for separating a single voice from a multitude of other sounds and voices -- solving what scientists call the "cocktail party problem," and the rest of us know as Harry Caul's plight in The Conversation.

In research funded by the National Science Foundation and -- big surprise -- the National Security Agency, two math professors from the University of Missouri-Columbia and one from Siemens trained a neural network to reconstruct a voice in a crowd with greater accuracy than existing techniques.

posted by Fergie @ 8/22/2006 03:52:00 PM