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I find this really hard to believe. If it were really possible then people could do it with their ears, and they would be doing it and showing off that they can
by javajosh 3y ago
I find this really hard to believe. If it were really possible then people could do it with their ears, and they would be doing it and showing off that they can do it. The human ear (and brain) are really, really good at finding patterns and getting signal out of noise.
- trifurcate 3y agoYou're really surprised that computers can outperform humans at pattern recognition?
- javajosh 3y agoYes. Humans have fantastic audio and video processing abilities, particularly picking out signal from noise. Even now human operators listen to sonar signals on submarines. There's a reason for that.
- snet0 3y agoPart of the issue with keyboard audio is that it's very "noisy". It's like comparing two instances of white-ish noise. Statistics would be able to discern the instances immediately, but a human probably wouldn't.
- eimrine 3y agoAnother part of the issue is if the laptop has two microphones, it can distinguish a place for low-freq sounds. The human head cannot locate low frequency sound sources such as a sub-woofer in a 2.1 system.
- AndroTux 3y agoComputers are better at stuff than humans? Impossible! I am the king of math, no machine beats me in calculating numbers!
- zaxomi 3y agoThis isn't new. Soviet listened to typewiters back in the 1970s.
- eimrine 3y agoPiano players can do it if the typist uses a piano keyboard. Also 88 keys but arranged in one row.
- chromoblob 3y agoI think that a person could do this too with enough training.