January 29, 2019
New Research is Helping Scientists to Understand How Humans Recognize Voices Better Than Computers
By Yuen Yiu, INSIDE SCIENCE
From INSIDE SCIENCE:
Humans can naturally recognize and identify other humans by their voices. A new study published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America explored how exactly humans are able to do this. The results may help researchers design more efficient voice recognition software in the future. “We humans have different speaker models for different individuals,” said Neeraj Sharma, a psychologist from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the lead author of the recent study. “When you listen to a conversation, you switch between different models in your brain, so you can understand each speaker better.” Read more
