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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
Applicants:
Chia-yu Hung, Hsinchu County, TW;
Tsung-li Yeh, Hsinchu, TW;
Yi-chang Tu, New Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Realtek Semiconductor Corp., Science Park, HsinChu, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/00 (2013.01); G10L 21/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A signal processing apparatus includes a speech recognition system and a voice activity detection unit. The voice activity detection unit is coupled to the speech recognition system, and arranged for detecting whether an audio signal is a voice signal and accordingly generating a voice activity detection result to the speech recognition system to control whether the speech recognition system should perform speech recognition upon the audio signal.