Patents by Inventor Roland Maas

Roland Maas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11514901
    Abstract: A system configured to process speech commands may classify incoming audio as desired speech, undesired speech, or non-speech. Desired speech is speech that is from a same speaker as reference speech. The reference speech may be obtained from a configuration session or from a first portion of input speech that includes a wakeword. The reference speech may be encoded using a recurrent neural network (RNN) encoder to create a reference feature vector. The reference feature vector and incoming audio data may be processed by a trained neural network classifier to label the incoming audio data (for example, frame-by-frame) as to whether each frame is spoken by the same speaker as the reference speech. The labels may be passed to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) component which may allow the ASR component to focus its processing on the desired speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Bjorn Hoffmeister, Brian King, Roland Maas
  • Patent number: 10854192
    Abstract: An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system detects an endpoint of an utterance based on a domain of the utterance. The ASR system processes a first portion of the utterance to determine the domain and then determines an endpoint of the remainder of the utterance depending on the domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland Maas, Ariya Rastrow, Rohit Prasad
  • Publication number: 20200035231
    Abstract: A system configured to process speech commands may classify incoming audio as desired speech, undesired speech, or non-speech. Desired speech is speech that is from a same speaker as reference speech. The reference speech may be obtained from a configuration session or from a first portion of input speech that includes a wakeword. The reference speech may be encoded using a recurrent neural network (RNN) encoder to create a reference feature vector. The reference feature vector and incoming audio data may be processed by a trained neural network classifier to label the incoming audio data (for example, frame-by-frame) as to whether each frame is spoken by the same speaker as the reference speech. The labels may be passed to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) component which may allow the ASR component to focus its processing on the desired speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Bjorn Hoffmeister, Brian King, Roland Maas
  • Patent number: 10373612
    Abstract: A system configured to process speech commands may classify incoming audio as desired speech, undesired speech, or non-speech. Desired speech is speech that is from a same speaker as reference speech. The reference speech may be obtained from a configuration session or from a first portion of input speech that includes a wakeword. The reference speech may be encoded using a recurrent neural network (RNN) encoder to create a reference feature vector. The reference feature vector and incoming audio data may be processed by a trained neural network classifier to label the incoming audio data (for example, frame-by-frame) as to whether each frame is spoken by the same speaker as the reference speech. The labels may be passed to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) component which may allow the ASR component to focus its processing on the desired speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Bjorn Hoffmeister, Brian King, Roland Maas
  • Publication number: 20170270919
    Abstract: A system configured to process speech commands may classify incoming audio as desired speech, undesired speech, or non-speech. Desired speech is speech that is from a same speaker as reference speech. The reference speech may be obtained from a configuration session or from a first portion of input speech that includes a wakeword. The reference speech may be encoded using a recurrent neural network (RNN) encoder to create a reference feature vector. The reference feature vector and incoming audio data may be processed by a trained neural network classifier to label the incoming audio data (for example, frame-by-frame) as to whether each frame is spoken by the same speaker as the reference speech. The labels may be passed to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) component which may allow the ASR component to focus its processing on the desired speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Bjorn Hoffmeister, Brian King, Roland Maas