US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 15 for "Progressive contrastive learning framework for self-supervised speaker verification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,939, issued on April 15, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Progressive contrastive learning framework for self-supervised speaker verification" was invented by Chunlei Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dong Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a first encoder, an original speech segment, receiving, by a second encoder, an augmented speech segment of the original speech segment, generating, by the first encoder, a first speaker representation based on the original speech segment, generating, by the second encoder, a second speaker representation based on the augmented ...