Method And System For Speech Enhancement

Patent №

US 11,657,828

Granted

2023-05-23

Filed 2020

Owner

NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

+1 more

AI components

6

ml · nlp · vision · speech · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16779145

Embodiments improve speech data quality through training a neural network for de-noising audio enhancement. One such embodiment creates simulated noisy speech data from high quality speech data. In turn, training, e.g., deep normalizing flow training, is performed on a neural network using the high quality speech data and the simulated noisy speech data to train the neural network to create de-noised speech data given noisy speech data. Performing the training includes minimizing errors in the neural network according to at least one of (i) a decoding error of an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system processing current de-noised speech data results generated by the neural network during the training and (ii) spectral distance between the high quality speech data and the current de-noised speech data results generated by the neural network during the training.

Machine learningNatural languageVisionSpeechPlanningAI hardwareG10L 21/0208G10L 21/0216G06N 3/02G06N 3/0475G06N 3/08G06N 3/09G10L 21/0324G10L 25/30+2 more

AI classification

Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware1.00
Natural language0.98
Vision0.89
Planning0.73
Knowledge representation0.05
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

assignment · 519370655

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 654750144

Assignors

QUILLEN, CARL BENJAMIN

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