US Patent Issued to Outbound AI on March 17 for "Systems and methods for distinguishing between human speech and machine generated speech" (Massachusetts, California, Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,986, issued on March 17, was assigned to Outbound AI Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for distinguishing between human speech and machine generated speech" was invented by Ronen Reouveni (San Diego), Robert Piro (Ellensburg, Wash.), Jonathan Wiggs (Seattle), Christina Quinn (Portland, Ore.) and Mohammed Soliman (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for determining whether a segment of speech was generated by a human or by a machine, such as a robotic voice that is synthesized and used as part of an IVR system. The disclosed approach can be used to assist in implementing a process to automate...