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Humans can perceive specific desired sounds without difficulty, even in noisy environments. This is a useful ability that many animals possess, and is referred to as the ‘Cocktail party effect’. We believe that by modeling this mechanism we will be able to produce tools for speech enhancement and segregation, or for other problems in speech recognition and analysis.
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Akagi, M., Mizumachi, M., Ishimoto, Y., Unoki, M. (2002). Speech Enhancement and Segregation Based on Human Auditory Mechanisms. In: Jin, Q., Li, J., Zhang, N., Cheng, J., Yu, C., Noguchi, S. (eds) Enabling Society with Information Technology. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66979-1_18
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