Patents by Inventor William F. Ganong, III

William F. Ganong, III 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).

  • Publication number: 20230394169
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an input speech signal. A transcription of the input speech signal may be received. One or more sensitive content portions may be identified from the transcription of the input speech signal. The one or more sensitive content portions from the transcription of the input speech signal may be obscured, thus defining an obscured transcription of the input speech signal. An obscured speech signal may be generated based upon, at least in part, the input speech signal, the transcription of the input speech signal, and the obscured transcription of the input speech signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20230395063
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an input speech signal. A transcription of the input speech signal may be generated via an automated speech recognition (ASR) system. One or more splitting points between one or more sensitive content portions and one or more non-sensitive content portions from the transcription may be identified. The input speech signal maybe split into the one or more sensitive content portions and the one or more non-sensitive content portions based upon, at least in part, the one or more splitting points, thus defining one or more sensitive content signals and one or more non-sensitive content signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, Uwe Helmut Jost, Dushyant Sharma
  • Patent number: 11783826
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20230315815
    Abstract: A method includes: providing a workstation having a playback app configured for audio playback; providing a decryption module having a decryption functionality communicatively connected to the playback app; encrypting, by a server using an encryption key associated with the decryption module, audio data; and decrypting, using the decryption module, the encrypted audio data. The decryption module having the decryption functionality is provided as part of the playback app, as part of firmware of a headphone, or as part of a phone app. The method can additionally include: i) authenticating, using a voice biometric authentication module, a transcriber; ii) enabling decryption by the decryption module only upon input of a decode PIN by the transcriber; and iii) a) modifying the audio data to spatialize speech component and noise component of the audio data at different angles using head-related transfer function (HRTF) filtering, and b) playing back the audio data binaurally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: William F. GANONG, III, Ljubomir MILANOVIC, Uwe JOST, Dushyant SHARMA, Patrick NAYLOR
  • Patent number: 11777947
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Guido Remi Marcel Gallopyn, William F. Ganong, III
  • Patent number: 11769486
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Patent number: 11676600
    Abstract: According to some aspects, a method of monitoring an acoustic environment of a mobile device, at least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, perform such a method and/or a mobile device configured to perform such a method is provided. The method comprises receiving acoustic input from the environment of the mobile device while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command based on performing a plurality of processing stages on the acoustic input, wherein at least one of the plurality of processing stages is performed while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, and using at least one contextual cue to assist in detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, Paul A. Van Mulbregt, Vladimir Sejnoha, Glen Wilson
  • Patent number: 11545136
    Abstract: A method for removing private data from an acoustic model includes capturing speech from a large population of users, creating a text-to-speech voice from at least a portion of the large population of users, discarding speech data from a database of speech, creating text-to-speech waveforms from the text-to-speech voice and the new database of speech with the discarded speech data and generating an automatic speech recognition model using the text-to-speech waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Vincent Laurent Pollet, Carl Benjamin Quillen, Philip Charles Woodland, William F. Ganong, III, Steven Hoskins
  • Publication number: 20220358924
    Abstract: According to some aspects, a method of monitoring an acoustic environment of a mobile device, at least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, perform such a method and/or a mobile device configured to perform such a method is provided. The method comprises receiving acoustic input from the environment of the mobile device while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command based on performing a plurality of processing stages on the acoustic input, wherein at least one of the plurality of processing stages is performed while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, and using at least one contextual cue to assist in detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY
    Inventors: William F. GANONG, III, Paul A. VAN MULBREGT, Vladimir SEJNOHA, Glen WILSON
  • Patent number: 11495208
    Abstract: In some embodiments, recognition results produced by a speech processing system (which may include two or more recognition results, including a top recognition result and one or more alternative recognition results) based on an analysis of a speech input, are evaluated for indications of potential errors. In some embodiments, the indications of potential errors may include discrepancies between recognition results that are meaningful for a domain, such as medically-meaningful discrepancies. The evaluation of the recognition results may be carried out using any suitable criteria, including one or more criteria that differ from criteria used by an ASR system in determining the top recognition result and the alternative recognition results from the speech input. In some embodiments, a recognition result may additionally or alternatively be processed to determine whether the recognition result includes a word or phrase that is unlikely to appear in a domain to which speech input relates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, Raghu Vemula, Robert Fleming
  • Publication number: 20220262342
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a 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 reference signal using a filtering operation, thus generating a time-varying spectrally-augmented signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220262357
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220262343
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220254480
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information; generating medical encounter workflow information via artificial intelligence, wherein the medical encounter workflow information is based at least in part upon the gathered encounter information and is configured to provide guidance to the medical entity concerning a desired workflow for the medical encounter; and providing the medical encounter workflow information to the medical entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220254515
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information, wherein the gathered encounter information includes video-based content of the patient; generating video-based content information via artificial intelligence, wherein the video-based content information is based at least in part upon the video-based content and/or the gathered encounter information and is configured to provide guidance to the medical entity concerning the video-based content; and providing the video-based content information to the medical entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220254516
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information; and providing supplemental information to the medical entity based, at least in part, upon the gathered encounter information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220254485
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information; and processing the gathered encounter information via artificial intelligence to determine whether a third-party encounter should be initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220254514
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a telehealth medical encounter; gathering information during the telehealth medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information; and rendering an informational window concerning the telehealth medical encounter for review by the patient and/or the medical entity, wherein the informational window is configured to provide supplemental information based, at least in part, upon the gathered encounter information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220254495
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information, wherein the gathered encounter information includes image-based content of the patient; generating image-based content information via artificial intelligence, wherein the image-based content information is based at least in part upon the image-based content and/or the gathered encounter information and is configured to provide guidance to the medical entity concerning the image-based content; and providing the image-based content information to the medical entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220254517
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information; generating medical encounter topical information via artificial intelligence, wherein the medical encounter topical information is based at least in part upon the gathered encounter information and is configured to provide guidance to the medical entity concerning one or more topics to be discussed during the medical encounter; and providing the medical encounter topical information to the medical entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III