ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,082, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Natural speech detection" was invented by Jonathan Taylor (London), Griff Tanner (London), Jonny Whyte (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and John P. Lesso (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone device, comprising: a microphone configured to generate an audio signal; a natural speech detection module for detecting natural speech in the first audio signal; wherein, on detection of the natural speech in the first audio signal, the natural speech detection module is configured to output a trigger signal to a speech processing module to pro...