US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Sept. 16 for "Removing undesirable speech from within a conference audio stream" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,628, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Removing undesirable speech from within a conference audio stream" was invented by Nick Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portion of speech represented in an audio stream of a conference participant is removed based on a determination that the portion of the speech corresponds to language identified as undesirable. An audio stream representing speech of a user of a participant device connected to a conference is obtained. The audio stream is processed to detect that a portion of the speech corresponds to language ident...