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Surprisingly detailed account of speech signal separation for a general audience publication.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=speech-getting-computers-understand-overlapping&print=true

Audio Alchemy: Getting Computers to Understand Overlapping Speech: Scientific American

You have little trouble hearing what your companion is saying in a noisy cafe, but computers are confounded by this "cocktail party problem." New algorithms finally enable machines to tune i…