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Teaching Computers How to Listen

In 2025, Professor Paris Smaragdis joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He wants to build machines that hear and understand sound better than people. He said his audio work was like computer vision research, except it focused on hearing. His team uses machine learning, a technology where programmes find patterns in data. With it, they separate single sounds and…

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