ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,905, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Signal processing apparatus and method, training apparatus and method" was invented by Naoya Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a signal processing apparatus that includes a voice quality conversion unit that converts acoustic data of any sound of an input sound source to acoustic data of voice quality of a target sound source different from the input sound source on the basis of a voice quality converter parameter obtained by training using acoustic data for each of one or more sound sources as training data, the acoustic data being different f...