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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Takuya Yoshioka, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andreas Stolcke, Berkeley, CA (US);
Zhuo Chen, Woodinville, WA (US);
Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nanshan Zeng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lijuan Qin, Redmond, WA (US);
William Isaac Hinthorn, Seattle, WA (US);
Xuedong Huang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method includes receiving audio signals representative of speech via multiple audio channels transmitted from corresponding multiple distributed devices, designating one of the audio channels as a reference channel, and for each of the remaining audio channels, determine a difference in time from the reference channel, and correcting each remaining audio channel by compensating for the corresponding difference in time from the reference channel.