Voice Activity Detection Using A Soft Decision Mechanism

Patent №

US 11,670,325

Granted

2023-06-06

Filed 2020

Owner

VERINT SYSTEMS LTD.

Lab

AI components

3

ml · nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16880560

Voice activity detection (VAD) is an enabling technology for a variety of speech based applications. Herein disclosed is a robust VAD algorithm that is also language independent. Rather than classifying short segments of the audio as either “speech” or “silence”, the VAD as disclosed herein employees a soft-decision mechanism. The VAD outputs a speech-presence probability, which is based on a variety of characteristics.

AI classification

Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
Natural language0.99
Knowledge representation0.32
AI hardware0.05
Planning0.03
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

VERINT SYSTEMS LTD.

assignment · 529210192

Assignors

WEIN, RON

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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