To Help Computers Detect Who's Talking, These Scientists Figured Out How Humans Do It

(Inside Science) -- If your phone rings and you answer it without looking at the caller ID, it's quite possible that before the person from the other end finishes saying “hello,” you would already know that it was your mother. You could also tell within a second whether she was happy, sad, angry or concerned.

Humans can naturally recognize and identify other humans by their voices. A new study published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America explored how exactly humans are ab