US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "System and method for single channel distant speech processing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,423, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for single channel distant speech processing" was invented by Dushyant Sharma (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a signal from a single microphone. A plurality of modified signals may be generated from the single microphone signal, where the plurality of modified signals include at least one of: a speaker-specific signal, an acoustic parameter-specific signal, and a speech enhanced signal. Speech processing may be performed on the plu...