US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 21 for "Audio caption generation method, audio caption generation apparatus, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,136, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Audio caption generation method, audio caption generation apparatus, and program" was invented by Yuma Koizumi (Tokyo) and Masahiro Yasuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Even in a case where an amount of training data is small, a caption for an audio signal is generated with high accuracy. An audio caption generation apparatus (1) generates a caption for an input target audio. A training data storage (10) stores a training data set including a set of an audio signal and a caption corresponding thereto. An audio similarity calculation unit (11) calculates similarity bet...