Removing Recurring Environmental Sounds

Patent №

US 9,799,329

Granted

2017-10-24

Filed 2014

Owner

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

AI components

3

nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14559687

This disclosure describes, in part, techniques and devices for identifying recurring environmental sounds in an environment such that these sounds may be canceled out of corresponding audio signals to increase signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of the signals and, hence, improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) on the signals. Recurring environmental sounds may include the ringing of a mobile phone, the beeping sound of a microphone, the buzzing of a washing machine, or the like.

Natural languageSpeechAI hardwareG10L 15/20G10L 15/22G10L 17/22G10L 21/0208G10L 25/51G10L 15/063G10L 15/065G10L 25/78

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language0.99
AI hardware0.66
Planning0.03
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 356870784

Assignors

POGUE, MICHAEL ALAN, PIERSOL, KURT WESLEY

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

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