US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on March 18 for "Audio signal conversion model learning apparatus, audio signal conversion apparatus, audio signal conversion model learning method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,890, issued on March 18, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Audio signal conversion model learning apparatus, audio signal conversion apparatus, audio signal conversion model learning method and program" was invented by Takuhiro Kaneko (Musashino, Japan), Hirokazu Kameoka (Musashino, Japan), Ko Tanaka (Musashino, Japan) and Nobukatsu Hojo (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice signal conversion model learning device includes: a generation unit configured to execute generation processing of generating a conversion destination voice signal on the basis of an input voice signal that is a vo...