Patent №
US 11,657,828
Granted
2023-05-23
Filed 2020
Owner
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
+1 more
Lab
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.
AI classification
Ownership
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
assignment · 519370655
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
assignment · 654750144
Assignors
QUILLEN, CARL BENJAMIN
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.