Having trouble listening in a crowded room? The new ‘cone of silence’ may help | Science – haveeruonline

Written by Matthew HudsonDec. 18, 2020, 3:45 p.m.
Somehow, even in a room full of loud conversations, our brain can focus with one voice on something called the Cocktail Party Effect. But it gets louder – or as you get older it is harder to do that. Now, researchers may have figured out how to fix it with a machine learning technique called silence and the cone of silence.
Computer scientists have trained a neural network that roughly mimics the wiring of the brain, detecting and separating the…

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