Talker Collisions in an Auditory Scene

Patent №

US 9,502,047

Granted

2016-11-22

Filed 2014

Owner

DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14373336

From a plurality of received voice signals, a signal interval in which there is a talker collision between at least a first and a second voice signal is detected. A processor receives a positive detection result and processes, in response to this, at least one of the voice signals with the aim of making it perceptually distinguishable. A mixer mixes the voice signals to supply an output signal, wherein the processed signal(s) replaces the corresponding received signals. In example embodiments, signal content is shifted away from the talker collision in frequency or in time. The invention may be useful in a conferencing system.

Natural languageSpeechG10L 21/0232G10L 21/003G10L 21/0272G10L 21/0364G10L 25/48H04M 3/568G10L 25/18

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language0.62
AI hardware0.00
Planning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION

assignment · 333600548

Assignors

SPITTLE, GARY, HOLLIER, MICHAEL

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

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