Patent ID: 11862171
Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 21:
22. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein:
the first pause detection technique and the second pause detection technique differ at least in susceptibility to inaccuracies in identifying sentence pauses caused by audio noise;
performing preprocessing operations further comprises:
based on the difference in susceptibility, and based on a level of audio noise present within the speech audio, deriving, by the at least one processor, a relative weighting among at least the first set of likely sentence pauses and the second set of likely sentence pauses; and
based on the relative weighting, selecting, by the at least one processor, likely sentence pauses for inclusion in a converged set of likely sentence pauses from among at least the first set of likely sentence pauses and the second set of likely sentence pauses; and

dividing the speech data set into the multiple data segments based on the combination of at least the first set of likely sentence pauses, the second set of likely sentence pauses, and the set of likely speaker changes comprises dividing, by the at least one processor, the speech data set into the multiple data segments based on a combination of the converged set of likely sentence pauses and the set of likely speaker changes.