US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 18 for "Targeted voice separation by speaker for speech recognition" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,891, issued on March 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Targeted voice separation by speaker for speech recognition" was invented by Quan Wang (Hoboken, N.J.), Ignacio Lopez Moreno (New York) and Li Wan (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing of acoustic features of audio data to generate one or more revised versions of the acoustic features, where each of the revised versions of the acoustic features isolates one or more utterances of a single respective human speaker. Various implementations generate the acoustic features by processing audio data using portion(s) of an automatic speech recognition...