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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2014
Applicant:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); G10L 25/21 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/84 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); G10L 25/21 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02082 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for broadening the beamwidth of beamforming and postfiltering using a plurality of beamformers and signal and power spectral density mixing, and controlling a postfilter based on spatial activity detection such that de-reverberation or noise reduction is performed when a speech source is between the first and second beams.