Patents Assigned to Nuance Communications
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Patent number: 12080295Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing speaker verification. A system configured to practice the method receives a request to verify a speaker, generates a text challenge that is unique to the request, and, in response to the request, prompts the speaker to utter the text challenge. Then the system records a dynamic image feature of the speaker as the speaker utters the text challenge, and performs speaker verification based on the dynamic image feature and the text challenge. Recording the dynamic image feature of the speaker can include recording video of the speaker while speaking the text challenge. The dynamic feature can include a movement pattern of head, lips, mouth, eyes, and/or eyebrows of the speaker. The dynamic image feature can relate to phonetic content of the speaker speaking the challenge, speech prosody, and the speaker's facial expression responding to content of the challenge.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Ann K. Syrdal, Sumit Chopra, Patrick Haffner, Taniya Mishra, Ilija Zeljkovic, Eric Zavesky
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Publication number: 20240046683Abstract: An interactive voice response system is provided that includes an interactive voice recognition module, an image collection module, and a data extraction module. The image collection module communicates with the voice recognition module and the user device. The extraction module communicates with the image collection module. The voice recognition module collects speech data from a user of the user device and provides an indication to the image collection module when the speech data includes complex data. The image collection module, in response to the indication, communicates with the user device in a text message. The text message includes a link that, when activated, opens a camera on the user device. The image collection module, in response to receiving an image having the complex data from the camera, communicates the image to the extraction module, which extracts the complex data from the image as textual data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Akash Chawla, Jenny DeGroot, Sergey A. Vovk
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Patent number: 11853691Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for synchronizing machine vision and audio is executed on a computing device and includes obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter, wherein the encounter information includes machine vision encounter information and audio encounter information. The machine vision encounter information and the audio encounter information are temporally-aligned to produce a temporarily-aligned encounter recording.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Donald E. Owen, Uwe Helmut Jost, Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda, Dushyant Sharma
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Patent number: 11837228Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a speech signal from each microphone of a plurality of microphones, thus defining a plurality of signals. One or more noise signals associated with microphone self-noise may be received. One or more self-noise-based augmentations may be performed on the plurality of signals based upon, at least in part, the one or more noise signals associated with microphone self-noise, thus defining one or more self-noise-based augmented signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Rong Gong, Stanislav Kruchinin, Ljubomir Milanovic
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Patent number: 11817095Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring a plurality of conversations within a monitored space to generate a conversation data set; processing the conversation data set using machine learning to: define a system-directed command for an ACI system, and associate one or more conversational contexts with the system-directed command; detecting the occurrence of a specific conversational context within the monitored space, wherein the specific conversational context is included in the one or more conversational contexts associated with the system-directed command; and executing, in whole or in part, functionality associated with the system-directed command in response to detecting the occurrence of the specific conversational context without requiring the utterance of the system-directed command and/or a wake-up word/phrase.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Paul Joseph Vozila, Neal Snider
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Patent number: 11783826Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving one or more inputs indicative of at least one of: a relative location of a speaker and a microphone array, and a relative orientation of the speaker and the microphone array. One or more reference signals may be received. A speech processing system may be trained using the one or more inputs and the one or more reference signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
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Patent number: 11777947Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for initiating a session within an ACI platform; receiving an authentication request from a requester; and authenticating that the requester has the authority to access the ACI platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Guido Remi Marcel Gallopyn, William F. Ganong, III
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Patent number: 11769486Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining model representative of a plurality of acoustic variations to a speech signal, thus defining a plurality of time-varying spectral modifications. The plurality of time-varying spectral modifications may be applied to a plurality of feature coefficients of a target domain of a reference signal, thus generating a plurality of time-varying spectrally-augmented feature coefficients of the reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
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Patent number: 11762638Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a library of functional modules; enabling a user to select a plurality of functional modules from the library of functional modules; and enabling the user to visually arrange the plurality of functional modules to form a conversational application.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: David Ardman, Andrew Matkin, Nirvana Tikku, John B. Fisler, Matthias Haack, Christopher A. Starbird, Bryan A. Reif, Alfred Sterphone, III, Nikos Polis, Michael S. Gourlay, Robert A. Follett
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Patent number: 11742088Abstract: Techniques for presenting alternative hypotheses for medical facts may include identifying, using at least one statistical fact extraction model, a plurality of alternative hypotheses for a medical fact to be extracted from a portion of text documenting a patient encounter. At least two of the alternative hypotheses may be selected, and the selected hypotheses may be presented to a user documenting the patient encounter.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventor: Girija Yegnanarayanan
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Patent number: 11705232Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving audio-based content from a user who is reviewing an image on a display screen; receiving gaze information that defines a gaze location of the user; and temporally aligning the audio-based content and the gaze information to form location-based content.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventor: Joel Praveen Pinto
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Patent number: 11699440Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a signal from each microphone of a plurality of microphones, thus defining a plurality of signals. One or more inter-microphone gain-based augmentations may be performed on the plurality of signals, thus defining one or more inter-microphone gain-augmented signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Rong Gong, Stanislav Kruchinin, Ljubomir Milanovic
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Patent number: 11698953Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a correction factor for a biometric profile of a plurality of biometric profiles based upon, at least in part, a detection performance metric associated with the biometric profile. The biometric profile may be adjusted based upon, at least in part, the detection policy for the biometric profile.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Haydar Talib, Daniele Ernesto Colibro, Claudio Vair
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Patent number: 11676598Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a signal from each microphone of a plurality of microphones, thus defining a plurality of signals. One or more microphone frequency responses associated with at least one microphone may be received. One or more microphone frequency response-based augmentations may be performed on the plurality of signals based upon, at least in part, the one or more microphone frequency responses, thus defining one or more microphone frequency response-based augmented signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Rong Gong, Stanislav Kruchinin, Ljubomir Milanovic
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Patent number: 11670408Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining, by a computing device, encounter information of a patient encounter, wherein the encounter information may include audio encounter information and video encounter information obtained from at least a first encounter participant. A report of the patient encounter may be generated based upon, at least in part, the encounter information. A relative importance of a word in the report may be determined. A portion of the video encounter information that corresponds to the word in the report may be determined. The portion of the video encounter information that corresponds to the word in the report may be stored at a first location, wherein the video encounter information may be stored at a second location remote from the first location.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventor: Joel Praveen Pinto
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Patent number: 11670298Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a signal from each microphone of a plurality of microphones, thus defining a plurality of signals. Harmonic distortion associated with at least one microphone may be determined. One or more harmonic distortion-based augmentations may be performed on the plurality of signals based upon, at least in part, the harmonic distortion associated with the at least one microphone, thus defining one or more harmonic distortion-based augmented signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Rong Gong, Stanislav Kruchinin, Ljubomir Milanovic
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Patent number: 11670282Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining calibration information for a three-dimensional space incorporating an ACI system; and processing the calibration information to calibrate the ACI system.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Joel Praveen Pinto, Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda
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Patent number: 11657828Abstract: Embodiments improve speech data quality through training a neural network for de-noising audio enhancement. One such embodiment creates simulated noisy speech data from high quality speech data. In turn, training, e.g., deep normalizing flow training, is performed on a neural network using the high quality speech data and the simulated noisy speech data to train the neural network to create de-noised speech data given noisy speech data. Performing the training includes minimizing errors in the neural network according to at least one of (i) a decoding error of an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system processing current de-noised speech data results generated by the neural network during the training and (ii) spectral distance between the high quality speech data and the current de-noised speech data results generated by the neural network during the training.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventor: Carl Benjamin Quillen
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Patent number: 11631411Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving information associated with an acoustic environment. Acoustic metadata associated with audio encounter information received by a first microphone system may be received. One or more speaker representations may be defined based upon, at least in part, the acoustic metadata associated with the audio encounter information and the information associated with the acoustic environment. One or more portions of the audio encounter information may be labeled with the one or more speaker representations and a speaker location within the acoustic environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor
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Patent number: 11631410Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a signal from each microphone of a plurality of microphones, thus defining a plurality of signals. One or more inter-microphone gain-based augmentations may be performed on the plurality of signals, thus defining one or more inter-microphone gain-augmented signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Rong Gong, Stanislav Kruchinin, Ljubomir Milanovic