US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 27 for "Voice shortcut detection with speaker verification" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,323, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Voice shortcut detection with speaker verification" was invented by Rajeev Rikhye (Freemont, Calif.), Quan Wang (Hoboken, N.J.), Yanzhang He (Palo Alto, Calif.), Qiao Liang (Redwood City, Calif.) and Ian C. McGraw (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques disclosed herein are directed towards streaming keyphrase detection which can be customized to detect one or more particular keyphrases, without requiring retraining of any model(s) for those particular keyphrase(s). Many implementations include processing audio data using a speaker sepa...