US Patent Issued to ADOBE on Feb. 11 for "Music-aware speaker diarization for transcripts and text-based video editing" (California, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,962, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Music-aware speaker diarization for transcripts and text-based video editing" was invented by Justin Jonathan Salamon (San Francisco), Fabian David Caba Heilbron (Campbell, Calif.), Xue Bai (Bellevue, Wash.), Aseem Omprakash Agarwala (Seattle), Hijung Shin (Arlington, Mass.) and Lubomira Assenova Dontcheva (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for music-aware speaker diarization. In an example embodiment, one or more audio classifiers detect speech and music independently ...