US Patent Issued to PEXIP AS on May 12 for "Method and system for speech detection and speech enhancement" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,688, issued on May 12, was assigned to PEXIP AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Method and system for speech detection and speech enhancement" was invented by Anna Kim (Asker, Norway) and Eamonn Shaw (Gamle Fredrikstad, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of speech detection, speech enhancement, and training in a speech detection and speech enhancement unit. The method comprising receiving input audio segments, and determining an acoustic environment based on input audio auxiliary information, extracting T-F-domain features from the received input audio segments, determining if each of the received input audio segments is speech by inputt...