For our October 2014 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of speaker recognition. The section below covers patents granted recently for systems or methods which propose either new speaker recognition apporaches or utilize existing speaker recognition modules in key roles for obtaining added values for their services. Number:  8,838,459 Title: Virtual participant-based real-time translation and transcription system for audio and video teleconferences Inventors:  J.D.Uszkoreit, A. Venugopal, J. Schalkwyk and J.J. Estelle Issued:  September 16, 2014 Assignee:  Google Inc. Number:  8,832,813 Title: Voice authentication via trusted device Inventors:  K. Cai, I. Farquhar, S. Peng, T.A. Morneau and W. Qian Issued:  September 9, 2014 Assignee:  EMC Corporation Number:  8,831,894 Title: System and method for pitch based gender identification with suspicious speaker detection Inventors: A. Nucci Issued: :  September 9, 2014 Number: 8,831,403 Title: System and method for creating customized on-demand video reports in a network environment Inventors: D. Patil, S.K. Gannu and S. Kajarekar Issued: September 9, 2014 Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. Number: 8,825,482 Title: Audio, video, simulation, and user interface paradigms Inventors: G. Hernandez-Abrego, X. Menendez-Pidal, S. Osman, R. Chen, R. Deshpande, C. Michaud-Wideman, R. Marks, E. Larsen and X. Mao Issued: September 2, 2014 Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Number: 8,825,478 Title: Real time generation of audio content summaries Inventors: S.M. Cox, J. Janakiraman, F. Lu and L.F. Salem Issued: September 2, 2014 Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. Number: 8,819,738 Title: System and method for real-time composite broadcast with moderation mechanism for multiple media feeds Inventors: G. Gresta Issued: August 26, 2014 Assignee: Yottio Inc. Number: 8,819,534 Title: Information processing system and information processing method Inventors: T. Nagamine, Y. Andoh and K. Omura Issued: August 26, 2014 Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co. Number: 8,817,964 Title: Telephonic voice authentication and display Inventors: M.J. Kim and E.T.C. Yee Issued: August 26, 2014 Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation If you have an interesting patent to share when we next feature patents related to speaker recognition, or if you are especially interested in a signal processing research field that you would want to be highlighted in this section, please send email to Csaba Benedek (benedek.csaba AT sztaki DOT mta DOT hu).