US Patent Issued to NTT on Nov. 18 for "Audio signal conversion model learning apparatus, audio signal conversion apparatus, audio signal conversion model learning method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,904, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NTT Inc. (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: "The present invention is a voice signal conversion model learning device provided with: a learning data acquisition unit for acquiring learning input data, which is an input voice signal; and a learning stage conversion unit for executing a conversion ...