US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Aug. 19 for "Paralinguistic information estimation model learning apparatus, paralinguistic information estimation apparatus, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,406, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Paralinguistic information estimation model learning apparatus, paralinguistic information estimation apparatus, and program" was invented by Atsushi Ando (Tokyo), Hosana Kamiyama (Tokyo) and Satoshi Kobashikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Paralinguistic information is estimated with high accuracy even when an utterance for which it is difficult to identify paralinguistic information is used for model learning. An acoustic feature extraction unit 11 extracts an acoustic feature from an utterance. An anti-teacher decision unit 12 decides, ...