Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Anchored speech detection and speech recognition
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Application No.: US15196228Application Date: 2016-06-29
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Publication No.: US10373612B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi , Bjorn Hoffmeister , Brian King , Roland Maas
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Pierce Atwood LLP
- Main IPC: G10L15/02
- IPC: G10L15/02 ; G10L15/08 ; G10L15/16 ; G10L15/20 ; G10L17/02 ; G10L17/06 ; G10L17/18 ; G10L25/78 ; G10L25/87

Abstract:
A system configured to process speech commands may classify incoming audio as desired speech, undesired speech, or non-speech. Desired speech is speech that is from a same speaker as reference speech. The reference speech may be obtained from a configuration session or from a first portion of input speech that includes a wakeword. The reference speech may be encoded using a recurrent neural network (RNN) encoder to create a reference feature vector. The reference feature vector and incoming audio data may be processed by a trained neural network classifier to label the incoming audio data (for example, frame-by-frame) as to whether each frame is spoken by the same speaker as the reference speech. The labels may be passed to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) component which may allow the ASR component to focus its processing on the desired speech.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170270919A1 ANCHORED SPEECH DETECTION AND SPEECH RECOGNITION Public/Granted day:2017-09-21
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