Google's AI can now pick out individual voices in a noisy room

People are, generally speaking, much better than computers at picking out a single voice in a crowd. You'll know this if you've ever tried to say something to your smart speaker while someone else is talking at the same time. Chances are it probably asked you to repeat your command. Now, this could be about to change, following the announcement Google has trained an AI model to separate distinct speech signals from one single audio recording. In a blog post, the company reveals its new deep learning model works by using both the auditory and visual signals of an input video – in short, it lip reads.