US Patent Issued to Pindrop Security on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods of speaker-independent embedding for identification and verification from audio" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,751, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods of speaker-independent embedding for identification and verification from audio" was invented by Kedar Phatak (Atlanta) and Elie Khoury (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for audio processing operations that evaluate characteristics of audio signals that are independent of the speaker's voice. A neural network architecture trains and applies discriminatory neural networks tasked with modeling and classifying speaker-independent characteristics. The task-specific models generate or extract feature vecto...