Audio data transfer
    41.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11271756B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-08

    申请号:US16607539

    申请日:2018-04-27

    Inventor: John Paul Lesso

    Abstract: This application relates to the transfer of audio data, and in particular to the verification that data transmitted to a data processing module, such as voice biometric module (111), did originate from a microphone. A microphone authentication apparatus (204) is described having a first input for receiving analogue audio signals from a microphone transducer (201) and an analogue-to-digital converter (202) coupled to said first input for generating digital microphone data based on the received audio signals. A data authentication module (203) generates an authentication certificate (MAC) for certifying that the digital microphone data did pass via the authentication module. The authentication certificate is based on the digital microphone data (DM) and an authentication module key. An output module outputs a digital microphone audio signal based on the digital microphone data with the authentication certificate.

    Detection of replay attack
    43.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11042616B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-22

    申请号:US16017072

    申请日:2018-06-25

    Inventor: John Paul Lesso

    Abstract: Detecting a replay attack on a voice biometrics system comprises receiving a speech signal; forming an autocorrelation of at least a part of the speech signal; and identifying that the received speech signal may result from a replay attack based on said autocorrelation. Identifying that the received speech signal may result from a replay attack may be achieved by: comparing the autocorrelation with a reference value; and identifying that the received speech signal may result from a replay attack based on a result of the comparison of the autocorrelation with the reference value, or by: supplying the autocorrelation to a neural network trained to distinguish autocorrelations formed from speech signals resulting from replay attacks from autocorrelations formed from speech signals not resulting from replay attacks.

    Speaker recognition and speaker change detection

    公开(公告)号:US11037574B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-15

    申请号:US16122033

    申请日:2018-09-05

    Inventor: John Paul Lesso

    Abstract: A method of speaker recognition comprises: receiving an audio signal comprising speech; performing a biometric process on a first part of the audio signal, wherein the first part of the audio signal extends over a first time period; obtaining a speaker recognition score from the biometric process for the first part of the audio signal; performing a biometric process on a plurality of second parts of the audio signal, wherein the second parts of the audio signal are successive sections of the first part of the audio signal, and wherein each second part of the audio signal extends over a second time period and the second time period is shorter than the first time period; obtaining a respective speaker recognition score from the biometric process for each second part of the audio signal; and determining whether there has been a speaker change based on the respective speaker recognition scores for successive second parts of the audio signal.

    Detection of liveness
    45.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10984269B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-20

    申请号:US16157843

    申请日:2018-10-11

    Inventor: John Paul Lesso

    Abstract: Detecting liveness of a speaker comprises: generating an ultrasound signal; receiving an audio signal comprising a reflection of the ultrasound signal; using the received audio signal comprising the reflection of the ultrasound signal to detect the liveness of a speaker; monitoring ambient ultrasound noise; and adjusting the operation of a system receiving the audio signal, based on a level of the reflected ultrasound and the monitored ambient ultrasound noise. The method can be used in a voice biometrics system, in which case detecting the liveness of a speaker comprises determining whether a received speech signal may be a product of a replay attack. The operation of the voice biometrics system may be adjusted based on a level of the reflected ultrasound and the monitored ambient ultrasound noise.

    Biometric authentication
    46.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10915614B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-09

    申请号:US16118950

    申请日:2018-08-31

    Inventor: John Paul Lesso

    Abstract: A method for authenticating a user of an electronic device is disclosed. The method comprises: responsive to detection of a trigger event indicative of a user interaction with the electronic device, generating an audio probe signal to play through an audio transducer of the electronic device; receiving a first audio signal comprising a response of the user's ear to the audio probe signal; receiving a second audio signal comprising speech of the user; and applying an ear biometric algorithm to the first audio signal and a voice biometric algorithm to the second audio signal to authenticate the user as an authorised user.

    Detection of replay attack
    47.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10692490B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-23

    申请号:US16050593

    申请日:2018-07-31

    Abstract: A method of detecting a replay attack comprises: receiving an audio signal representing speech; identifying speech content present in at least a portion of the audio signal; obtaining information about a frequency spectrum of each portion of the audio signal for which speech content is identified; and, for each portion of the audio signal for which speech content is identified: retrieving information about an expected frequency spectrum of the audio signal; comparing the frequency spectrum of portions of the audio signal for which speech content is identified with the respective expected frequency spectrum; and determining that the audio signal may result from a replay attack if a measure of a difference between the frequency spectrum of the portions of the audio signal for which speech content is identified and the respective expected frequency spectrum exceeds a threshold level.

    Apparatus and methods for monitoring a microphone

    公开(公告)号:US10674253B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-02

    申请号:US15935428

    申请日:2018-03-26

    Abstract: This application describes a noise reduction apparatus (800) for a microphone device (100) having an acoustic port (110). The apparatus has a spectrum peak detect block (301) for receiving a microphone signal (SMIC) and determining, from the microphone signal, at least one characteristic of a resonance peak (202) associated with the acoustic port of the microphone. The at least one characteristic may comprise a resonance frequency (fH) and/or quality factor (QH). A noise reduction block (801) is configured to process the microphone signal based on the resonance characteristic so as to reduce noise in the processed microphone signal due to said resonance. The noise reduction block may apply a function which is the inverse of the determined resonance characteristic.

    Audio test mode
    50.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10375493B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-06

    申请号:US16009638

    申请日:2018-06-15

    Abstract: An audio system receives an input signal and, if the input signal has a sparse representation in the frequency domain, comprising components at at least one frequency of interest, the input signal is filtered in at least one band pass filter, such that only components at the or each frequency of interest are passed to an output. The operation is able in some case to analyze the input signal to determine whether the input signal has a sparse representation in the frequency domain.

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