28 patents
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Enhanced de-esser for in-car communication systems
14 Nov 23
Methods and systems for deessing of speech signals are described.
Tobias Herbig, Stefan Richardt
Filed: 1 Sep 16
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Methods and apparatus for adaptive gain control in a communication system
24 Oct 23
Methods and apparatus for a communication system having microphones and loudspeakers to determine a noise and speech level estimate for a transformed signal, determine a SNR from the noise and speech level estimates, and determine a gain for the transformed signal to achieve a selected SNR range at a given position.
Tobias Herbig, Meik Pfeffinger, Bernd Iser
Filed: 1 Nov 19
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Automotive entertainment applications
5 Sep 23
An apparatus for entertaining an entertainee in a passenger vehicle includes an infotainment system having an automotive assistant that executes a spatially-cognizant entertainment application that interacts with the entertainee.
Mohammad Mehdi Moniri, Aditya Gulati
Filed: 4 Dec 20
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Flexible-format voice command
22 Aug 23
A voice-based system is configured to process commands in a flexible format, for example, in which a wake word does not necessarily have to occur at the beginning of an utterance.
Bart D'hoore, Christoph Halboth, Holger Quast, Dino Seppi, Markus Funk, Tom Claes, Christophe Ris
Filed: 26 Apr 21
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Techniques for wake-up word recognition and related systems and methods
7 Mar 23
A system for detection of at least one designated wake-up word for at least one speech-enabled application.
Meik Pfeffinger, Timo Matheja, Tobias Herbig, Tim Haulick
Filed: 15 Jun 16
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Methods and systems for increasing autonomous vehicle safety and flexibility using voice interaction
14 Feb 23
A vehicle control system executing a voice control system for facilitating voice-based dialog with a driver to enable the driver or autonomous vehicle to control certain operational aspects of an autonomous vehicle is provided.
Nils Lenke, Johan Wouters, Adam Emfield, Sumanta Chakraborty, Charles L. Ortiz, Jr.
Filed: 3 Jan 20
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Communication system for multiple acoustic zones
7 Feb 23
An communication system supports communication paths within an environment by receiving speech signals of a speaker and playing it back for one or more listeners.
Tobias Herbig, Markus Buck, Meik Pfeffinger
Filed: 1 May 17
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Techniques for language independent wake-up word detection
3 Jan 23
A user device configured to perform wake-up word detection in a target language.
Xiao-Lin Ren, Jianzhong Teng
Filed: 10 Nov 16
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Haptic communication with a vehicle's occupant
6 Dec 22
A haptic-communication system includes a fabric, a frame that supports the fabric, and a haptic element that is integral with a textile that forms the fabric.
Nils Lenke, Rahel Flechtner, Karina Sonja Wirth
Filed: 28 Oct 20
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Hybrid arbitration system
4 Oct 22
A method for selecting a speech recognition result on a computing device includes receiving a first speech recognition result determined by the computing device, receiving first features, at least some of the features being determined using the first speech recognition result, determining whether to select the first speech recognition result or to wait for a second speech recognition result determined by a cloud computing service based at least in part on the first speech recognition result and the first features.
Min Tang
Filed: 26 Mar 20
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Contextual utterance resolution in multimodal systems
27 Sep 22
A system and method of responding to a vocal utterance may include capturing and converting the utterance to word(s) using a language processing method, such as natural language processing.
Slawek Jarosz, Cassandra Lee, Patrick Langer, Christian Ardelean, Mohammad Mehdi Moniri
Filed: 7 Jan 19
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Techniques for spatially selective wake-up word recognition and related systems and methods
6 Sep 22
According to some aspects, a system for detecting a designated wake-up word is provided, the system comprising a plurality of microphones to detect acoustic information from a physical space having a plurality of acoustic zones, at least one processor configured to receive a first acoustic signal representing the acoustic information received by the plurality of microphones, process the first acoustic signal to identify content of the first acoustic signal originating from each of the plurality of acoustic zones, provide a plurality of second acoustic signals, each of the plurality of second acoustic signals substantially corresponding to the content identified as originating from a respective one of the plurality of acoustic zones, and performing automatic speech recognition on each of the plurality of second acoustic signals to determine whether the designated wake-up word was spoken.
Julien Prémont, Tim Haulick, Emanuele Dalmasso, Munir Nikolai Alexander Georges, Andreas Kellner, Gaetan Martens, Oliver Van Porten, Holger Quast, Martin Roessler, Tobias Wolff, Markus Buck
Filed: 10 Feb 16
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Techniques for language independent wake-up word detection
9 Aug 22
A user device configured to perform wake-up word detection in a target language.
Xiao-Lin Ren, Jianzhong Teng
Filed: 10 Nov 16
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Methods and apparatus for detecting a voice command
19 Jul 22
According to some aspects, a method of monitoring an acoustic environment of a mobile device, at least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, perform such a method and/or a mobile device configured to perform such a method is provided.
William F Ganong, III, Paul Adrian Van Mulbregt, Vladimir Sejnoha, Glen Edward Wilson
Filed: 12 Mar 13
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Method and apparatus for enhancing a geolocation database
19 Apr 22
While current voice assistants can respond to voice requests, creating smarter assistants that leverage location, past requests, and user data to enhance responses to future requests and to provide robust data about locations is desirable.
Nils Lenke, Mohammad Mehdi Moniri, Reimund Schmald, Daniel Kindermann
Filed: 27 Jun 19
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Methods and apparatus for ASR with embedded noise reduction
19 Apr 22
Methods and an apparatus for performing feature extraction on speech in a microphone signal with embedded noise processing to reduce the amount of processing are provided.
Jianzhong Teng, Xiao-Lin Ren, Xingui Zeng, Yi Gao
Filed: 25 Jul 19
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Selection system and method
21 Dec 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a verbal command, from a user, on a vehicle infotainment system, wherein the vehicle infotainment system is configured to interface with an external system.
Mustafa Turker Firik, Nils Lenke, Reimund Emil Schmald
Filed: 28 Jul 17
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Coordinating electronic personal assistants
30 Nov 21
A method includes receiving a representation of a spoken utterance, processing the representation of the spoken utterance to identify, from a number of candidate domains, a request and a serving domain, and routing the request to a personal assistant based on the request and the serving domain.
Giuseppe Iacobelli, Binh Nguyen, Josef Anastasiadis
Filed: 28 Oct 20
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Low complexity detection of voiced speech and pitch estimation
16 Nov 21
A low-complexity method and apparatus for detection of voiced speech and pitch estimation is disclosed that is capable of dealing with special constraints given by applications where low latency is required, such as in-car communication (ICC) systems.
Simon Graf, Tobias Herbig, Markus Buck
Filed: 17 Aug 17
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Interaction system and method
9 Nov 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring an interior environment of a motor vehicle; determining a personal state of an occupant within the interior environment of the motor vehicle; and interacting with the occupant based, at least in part, upon the personal state of the occupant.
Christian Ardelean, Michael Kaisser, Johan Wouters, Robert M. Policano, Nils Lenke, Binh Dac Nguyen
Filed: 7 May 19