Google managed to develop a new technology that until now we have only seen in movies, but which shows how much companies that have enough money at their disposal can do. More precisely, we are talking about a new technology developed by the Google company that allows the identification of certain voices in crowded spaces, the idea being very interesting.
Google would have succeeded in developing a system that can isolate a voice in a crowded space, or even several voices, if needed, and the technology itself would be extremely useful for the authorities. Theoretically, Google Assistant could understand much more easily the people who give it any kind of commands, but it is easy to understand why many people could be scared to know that such technology exists.
Google develops technology that you have only seen in movies
Google is able to separate people's voices from other ambient sounds, but apparently also from other people's voices, so it would be able to recognize certain people when they speak in crowded spaces. We have seen in movies a variety of examples of the ways in which these technologies were used by spies, for example, and although Google is developing the technology for something else, it is easy to understand why it could be used for many other purposes.
"Researchers at Google have built a machine learning-powered system that can pick out specific sounds like speech in a video. And I don't just mean isolating spoken words from background audio sources like ambient noise (although it can do that, too), but entirely separating the speech of two people talking simultaneously. And based on the results, it can do a better job than we can."
Google uses artificial intelligence and many microphones to achieve this, and all in all, we are talking about an extremely interesting system that can be extremely useful in the future. If Google will share this technology with the American government, it's hard to say, but I'm sure that apart from Google there are other companies working on similar technologies.
