US Patent Issued to Google on April 8 for "Conformer-based speech conversion model" (New Jersey, New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,348, issued on April 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Conformer-based speech conversion model" was invented by Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Mt. Kisco, N.Y.), Zhehuai Chen (Jersey City, N.J.), Fadi Biadsy (Mountain View, Calif.) and Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for speech conversion includes receiving, as input to an encoder of a speech conversion model, an input spectrogram corresponding to an utterance, the encoder including a stack of self-attention blocks. The method further includes generating, as output from the encoder, an encoded spectrogram and receiving, a...