Anicet Mbida 06:51, April 19, 2023

Anicet Mbida gives us every morning what is best in innovation. This Wednesday, he is interested in the possibility of isolating a particular voice in the midst of the hubbub of the crowd.

The innovation of the day is a new advance in speech recognition. We now know how to isolate a particular voice in the midst of the hubbub of the crowd.

And it's a real tour de force, because it's not given to everyone. If you're in a restaurant, for example, and there's a lot of noise around. We are all able to follow a conversation with the person in front of us. But it's already a little more complicated to capture the conversations of the tables next door. And you have to be Super Jaimie to know what's being said on the other end of the room. Well, researchers have put a kind of Super Jaimie in software to isolate different timbres of voices in the crowd. As a result, it makes it possible to choose a particular voice and to hear only this person.

What will it be used for. To spy on people?

Yes, for sure. You were talking about spies: when in the movies they put the music on so that we don't hear them... With this system, it will no longer work! We can easily transcribe their conversations even in noisy places.
But strangely, it is rather in elevators that we should find this technology. It was developed by Mitsubishi Electric laboratories. Mitsubishi which manufactures elevators and works on models with voice recognition. They want to be able to understand a group of people when they get into the elevator: "I'm going to the fifth... I, on the seventh... I go down to the first... ». Everyone will be able to speak at the same time. But this will not prevent him from recording the right floor chosen by everyone.

We hope it is effective, otherwise it will be a mess...

Yes, especially since technology is still limited. As soon as there are more than 5 people talking at the same time, he no longer understands! Can you imagine? "No, no! You are the sixth to speak, I can no longer record your floor. » The elevator without buttons is not for now...
On the other hand, it is a technology that will soon be found on the voice assistants of our mobile phones. It will allow them to better understand us in the street or in the middle of the crowd. And that's good, because phones have a lot of trouble today, as soon as there is the slightest background noise.