Methods and Systems for Voice Conversion

Patent №

US 9,613,620

Granted

2017-04-04

Filed 2015

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14631464

A device may receive data indicative of a plurality of speech sounds associated with first voice characteristics of a first voice. The device may receive an input indicative of speech associated with second voice characteristics of a second voice. The device may map at least one portion of the speech of the second voice to one or more speech sounds of the plurality of speech sounds of the first voice. The device may compare the first voice characteristics with the second voice characteristics based on the map. The comparison may include vocal tract characteristics, nasal cavity characteristics, and voicing characteristics. The device may determine a given representation configured to associate the first voice characteristics with the second voice characteristics. The device may provide an output indicative of pronunciations of the one or more speech sounds of the first voice according to the second voice characteristics based on the given representation.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechAI hardwareG10L 15/07G10L 17/06G10L 25/75G10L 2021/0135

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware0.97
Knowledge representation0.24
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 350300436

Assignors

AGIOMYRGIANNAKIS, IOANNIS, ROUPAKIA, ZOI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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