Invention Application
- Patent Title: End-To-End Time-Domain Multitask Learning for ML-Based Speech Enhancement
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Application No.: US17321411Application Date: 2021-05-15
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Publication No.: US20220366927A1Publication Date: 2022-11-17
- Inventor: Ramin Pishehvar , Ante Jukic , Mehrez Souden , Jason Wung , Feipeng Li , Joshua D. Atkins
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Main IPC: G10L21/0216
- IPC: G10L21/0216 ; G10L15/16 ; G06N20/00

Abstract:
Disclosed is a multi-task machine learning model such as a time-domain deep neural network (DNN) that jointly generate an enhanced target speech signal and target audio parameters from a mixed signal of target speech and interference signal. The DNN may encode the mixed signal, determine masks used to jointly estimate the target signal and the target audio parameters based on the encoded mixed signal, apply the mask to separate the target speech from the interference signal to jointly estimate the target signal and the target audio parameters, and decode the masked features to enhance the target speech signal and to estimate the target audio parameters. The target audio parameters may include a voice activity detection (VAD) flag of the target speech. The DNN may leverage multi-channel audio signal and multi-modal signals such as video signals of the target speaker to improve the robustness of the enhanced target speech signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US11996114B2 End-to-end time-domain multitask learning for ML-based speech enhancement Public/Granted day:2024-05-28
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