Method and system for speech enhancement

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11557306
APP PUB NO 20200294522A1
SERIAL NO

16651799

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A method and a system for speech enhancement including a time synchronization unit configured to synchronize microphone signals sent from at least two microphones; a source separation unit configured to separate the synchronized microphone signals and output a separated speech signal, which corresponds to a speech source; and a noise reduction unit including a feature extraction unit configured to extract a speech feature of the separated speech signal and a neural network configured to receive the speech feature and output a clean speech feature.

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  • HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bi, Xiangru Shanghai, CN 6 1
Zhang, Guoxia Shanghai, CN 31 49

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