This AI Can Separate Speech, Music and Sound Effects from Movie Soundtracks

This content originally appeared on Hacker Noon and was authored by Louis Bouchard

Have you ever tuned in to a video or a TV show and the actors were completely inaudible, or the music was way too loud? Well, this problem, also called the cocktail party problem, may never happen again. Mitsubishi and Indiana University just published a new model as well as a new dataset tackling this task of identifying the right soundtrack. For example, if we take the same audio clip we just ran with the music way too loud, you can simply turn up or down the audio track you want to give more importance to the speech than the music.

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This content originally appeared on Hacker Noon and was authored by Louis Bouchard