US Patent Issued to Vocollect on Aug. 26 for "Distinguishing user speech from background speech in speech-dense environments" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,678, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Vocollect Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Distinguishing user speech from background speech in speech-dense environments" was invented by David D. Hardek (Allison Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, system, and method whereby a speech-driven system can distinguish speech obtained from users of the system from other speech spoken by background persons, as well as from background speech from public address systems. In one aspect, the present system and method prepares, in advance of field-use, a voice-data file which is created in a training environment. The training environment exhibits both ...