ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,624, issued on July 29, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Accent conversion for virtual conferences" was invented by Tuan Nam Nguyen (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Alexander Waibel (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, during a virtual conference hosted by a virtual conference provider, a first audio stream comprising speech having first speech patterns according to a first accent, the first audio stream received from a first client device associated with a first participant in the virtual conference; generating, by a first trained machine learning ("ML") model, ...