ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,998, issued on June 23, was assigned to CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY (Hubei, China).

"Multi-speaker overlapping voice detection method and system thereof" was invented by Zengzhao Chen (Hubei, China), Zhifeng Wang (Hubei, China), Baolin Yi (Hubei, China), Jiangbo Shu (Hubei, China), Shengming Wang (Hubei, China) and Xinxing Jiang (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a multi-speaker overlapping voice detection method and a system. The method includes: obtaining a voice to be detected, and removing silence from the voice to be detected is removed; extracting a feature of the voice to be detected after silence r...