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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2023
Analog Devices, Inc., Wilmington, MA (US);
Johannes Traa, Medford, MA (US);
Atulya Yellepeddi, Medford, MA (US);
Donald F. Porges, Watertown, MA (US);
Analog Devices, Inc., Wilmington, MA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure provided a method for voice control that includes transforming, using a short-time Fourier transform (STFT) applied to data in each window aligned across each input channel of the multichannel audio stream, the multichannel audio stream into a complex valued frequency-domain representation. For a current window, the method further includes: updating a first complex-valued covariance matrix corresponding to a slowly-adapting beamformer and forming a single-channel denoised estimate for each frequency band in the STFT; calculating a voice activity detection (VAD) estimate for each frequency band in the STFT by comparing a magnitude of the single-channel denoised estimate to a magnitude of each input channel of the multichannel audio stream; and selectively updating or refraining from updating, responsive to the VAD estimate respectively indicating a presence or an absence of speech, a second complex-valued covariance matrix corresponding to a quickly-adapting beamformer.