US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, Dolby International on Sept. 9 for "Automatic leveling of speech content" (Spanish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,595, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and Dolby International AB (Amsterdam).

"Automatic leveling of speech content" was invented by Chunghsin Yeh (Barcelona, Spain), Giulio Cengarle (Barcelona, Spain) and Mark David de Burgh (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for automatic leveling of speech content. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, using one or more processors, frames of an audio recording including speech and non-speech content; for each frame: determining, using the one or more processors, a speech probability; analyzing, us...