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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/21 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/21 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02087 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01); H04R 2430/03 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
Method and apparatus to determine a speaker activity detection measure from energy-based characteristics of signals from a plurality of speaker-dedicated microphones, detect acoustic events using power spectra for the microphone signals, and determine a robust speaker activity detection measure from the speaker activity measure and the detected acoustic events.