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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Markus Buck, Biberach, DE;
Tobias Herbig, Ulm, DE;
Simon Graf, Ulm, DE;
Christophe Ris, Taintignies, BE;
Assignee:
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/28 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); G10L 15/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/20 (2006.01); G10L 21/02 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/28 (2013.01); G10L 15/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); G10L 15/20 (2013.01); G10L 21/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to process microphone signals by a speech enhancement module to generate an audio stream signal including first and second metadata for use by a speech recognition module. In an embodiment, speech recognition is performed using endpointing information including transitioning from a silence state to a maybe speech state, in which data is buffered, based on the first metadata and transitioning to a speech state, in which speech recognition is performed, based upon the second metadata.