US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Low latency audio processing techniques" (Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,567, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Low latency audio processing techniques" was invented by Bjorn Hoffmeister (Seattle), Ariya Rastrow (Seattle) and Grant Strimel (Presto, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for reducing latency in processing of audio data, where the latency may be caused in detecting audio of interest in the audio data, are described. A device that captures audio data may include a detection component to determine when the audio data includes audio of interest (e.g., device-directed speech), and an audio embedding generator to generate embedding vectors for the ca...