US Patent Issued to Pindrop Security on Aug. 11 for "Speaker specific speech enhancement" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,089, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Speaker specific speech enhancement" was invented by Ganesh Sivaraman (Atlanta), Avrosh Kumar (Atlanta) and Elie Khoury (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for a machine-learning architecture system that enhances the speech audio of a user-defined target speaker by suppressing interfering speakers, as well as background noise and reverberations. The machine-learning architecture includes a speech separation engine for separating the speech signal of a target speaker from a mixture of multiple speakers' speech, and a nois...