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US 11,694,693 B2Granted
Methods and systems for processing audio signals containing speech data
AssigneeSoapBox Labs Ltd.
InventorPatricia Scanlon
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Abstract
Methods and systems for processing audio signals containing speech data are disclosed. Biometric data associated with at least one speaker are extracted from an audio input. A correspondence is determined between the extracted biometric data and stored biometric data associated with a consenting user profile, where a consenting user profile is a user profile indicates consent to store biometric data. If no correspondence is determined, the speech data is discarded, optionally after having been processed.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- storing one or more user profiles that are each associated with one of one or more users of a computing system, wherein each user profile is associated with a voiceprint that was generated to uniquely characterize voice characteristics of a respective user of the one or more users of the computing system, wherein at least one of the stored one or more user profiles is a consenting user profile of a user, wherein each consenting user profile of a user indicates consent to store biometric data of the user;
- processing an audio signal containing speech data received from a speaker at the computing system, wherein the processing of the audio signal comprises extracting biometric data associated with the speaker;
- determining whether the extracted biometric data associated with the speaker corresponds to any voiceprint associated with any consenting user profile indicating consent to store biometric data of a respective user;
- and
- responsive to determining that the extracted biometric data associated with the speaker does not correspond to any voiceprint associated with any consenting user profile:
- processing the speech data received from the speaker by identifying a command of the speaker using speech recognition operations and executing the command to respond to the command of the speaker;
- and
- after processing the speech data received from the speaker, deleting the speech data received from the speaker within a predetermined time period.
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A computing system comprising:
- an audio input;
- a visual input;
- a data store storing one or more user profiles that are each associated with one of one or more users of the computing system, wherein each user profile is associated with a voiceprint that was generated to uniquely characterize voice characteristics of a respective user of the one or more users of the computing system, wherein at least one of the stored one or more user profiles is a consenting user profile of a user, wherein each consenting user profile of a user indicates consent to store biometric data of the user;
- an interface to a storage archive storing speech data;
- and
- a hardware processor, coupled to the audio input, the visual input and the data store, to:
- process an audio signal containing speech data received from a speaker at the computing system, wherein the processing of the audio signal comprises extracting biometric data associated with the speaker;
- determine whether the extracted biometric data associated with the speaker corresponds to any voiceprint associated with any consenting user profile indicating consent to store biometric data of a respective user;
- and
- responsive to determining that the extracted biometric data associated with the speaker does not correspond to any voiceprint associated with any consenting user profile:
- process the speech data received from the speaker by identifying a command of the speaker using speech recognition operations and executing the command to respond to the command of the speaker;
- and
- after processing the speech data received from the speaker, delete the speech data received from the speaker within a predetermined time period.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- storing one or more user profiles that are each associated with one of one or more users of a computing system, wherein each user profile is associated with a voiceprint that was generated to uniquely characterize voice characteristics of a respective user of the one or more users of the computing system, wherein at least one of the stored one or more user profiles is a consenting user profile of a user, wherein each consenting user profile of a user indicates consent to store biometric data of the user;
- processing an audio signal containing speech data received from a speaker at the computing system, wherein the processing of the audio signal comprises extracting biometric data associated with the speaker;
- determining whether the extracted biometric data associated with the speaker corresponds to any voiceprint associated with any consenting user profile indicating consent to store biometric data of a respective user;
- and
- responsive to determining that the extracted biometric data associated with the speaker does not correspond to any voiceprint associated with any consenting user profile:
- processing the speech data received from the speaker by identifying a command of the speaker using speech recognition operations and executing the command to respond to the command of the speaker;
- and
- after processing the speech data received from the speaker, deleting the speech data received from the speaker within a predetermined time period.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.