US Patent Issued to Pindrop Security on July 8 for "Channel-compensated low-level features for speaker recognition" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,608, issued on July 8, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Channel-compensated low-level features for speaker recognition" was invented by Elie Khoury (Atlanta) and Matthew Garland (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating channel-compensated features of a speech signal includes a channel noise simulator that degrades the speech signal, a feed forward convolutional neural network (CNN) that generates channel-compensated features of the degraded speech signal, and a loss function that computes a difference between the channel-compensated features and handcrafted features for the same raw speech signa...