How Google identifies who’s talking

From the Google Research Blog

People are remarkably good at focusing their attention on a particular person in a noisy environment, mentally “muting” all other voices and sounds. Known as the cocktail party effect, this capability comes natural to us humans. However, automatic speech separation — separating an audio signal into its individual speech sources — while a well-studied problem, remains a significant challenge for computers.

I hope Apple makes similar advances in this area. Identification by voice will open up so many possibilities.