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- Patent Title: Method for microphone selection and multi-talker segmentation with ambient automated speech recognition (ASR)
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Application No.: US15403481Application Date: 2017-01-11
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Publication No.: US10424317B2Publication Date: 2019-09-24
- Inventor: Pablo Peso Parada , Dushyant Sharma , Patrick Naylor
- Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Burlington
- Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Burlington
- Agency: Holland & Knight LLP
- Agent Brian J. Colandreo; Michael T. Abramson
- Main IPC: G10L21/0232
- IPC: G10L21/0232 ; G10L15/04 ; G10L17/16 ; G10L21/028 ; H04R1/40 ; G10L17/06 ; G10L25/03 ; G10L21/0216 ; G10L15/00 ; G10L25/84

Abstract:
Disclosed methods and systems are directed to determining a best microphone pair and segmenting sound signals. The methods and systems may include receiving a collection of sound signals comprising speech from one or more audio sources (e.g., meeting participants) and/or background noise. The methods and systems may include calculating a TDOA and determining, based on the TDOA and via robust statistics, the best pair of microphones. The methods and systems may also include segmenting sound signals from multiple sources.
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