US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 17 for "Multi-talker audio stream separation, transcription and diaraization" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,993, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-talker audio stream separation, transcription and diaraization" was invented by Masahito Togami (San Jose, Calif.), Ritwik Giri (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Mark Goodwin (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Arvindh Krishnaswamy (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Siddhartha Shankara Rao (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of talker embedding vectors may be derived that correspond to a plurality of talkers in an input audio stream. Each talker embedding vector may represent respective voice characteristics of a respective talker. The talker embedding vect...