NovoSpeech awarded U.S. patent for speech recognition technology innovation

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL: NovoSpeech, a portfolio company of The Trendlines Group, received a notice of allowance for one of its key speech recognition innovations, heralding a significant milestone in its intellectual property protection process.

NovoSpeech received notice that its "virtual microphone array" application has been granted by the USPTO. This innovation is a proprietary algorithm that creates a number of independent channels -producing an array effect - from a single speech signal from one microphone.

Just as an array of microphones allows for signal enhancement in a noisy environment, NovoSpeech's virtual microphone array enhances the speech signal against background noise, all without de-noising the speech signal, which often results in losing important data. Thus, NovoSpeech improves the robustness of speech recognition in real-life environments such as busy public places and moving vehicles and addresses one of the key challenges still facing speech recognition as it tries to penetrate mass markets.