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Adaptive speech endpoint detector

US10339918B2 · kind B2 · utility

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21Claims

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Assignee

Intel IP Corporation · US

Inventors

Joachim Hofer · Munich, DE
Munir Nikolai Alexander Georges · Kehl, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 27, 2016
Grant date	Jul 2, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 27, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG10L2025/786
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An embodiment of a speech endpoint detector apparatus may include a speech detector to detect a presence of speech in an electronic speech signal, a pause duration measurer communicatively coupled to the speech detector to measure a duration of a pause following a period of detected speech, an end of utterance detector communicatively coupled to the pause duration measurer to detect if the pause measured following the period of detected speech is greater than a pause threshold corresponding to an end of an utterance, and a pause threshold adjuster to adaptively adjust the pause threshold corresponding to an end of an utterance based on stored pause information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

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