ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,221, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Neural networks for changing characteristics of vocals" was invented by Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A messaging system for audio character type swapping. Methods of audio character type swapping include receiving input audio data having a first characteristic and transforming the input audio data to an input image where the input image represents the frequencies and intensities of the audio. The methods further include processing the input image using a convolutional neural network (CNN) to generate an output im...