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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ivan Jelev Tashev, Kirkland, WA (US);
Shuayb M Zarar, Redmond, WA (US);
Yan-Hui Tu, Hefei, CN;
Chin-Hui Lee, Brookhaven, GA (US);
Han Zhao, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed for improved real-time audio processing. One method including: receiving audio data including a plurality of frames having a plurality of frequency bins; calculating, for each frequency bin, an approximate speech signal estimation based on the plurality of frames; calculating, for each approximate speech signal estimation, a clean speech estimation and at least one additional target including an ideal ratio mask using a trained neural network model; and calculating, for each frequency bin, a final clean speech estimation using the calculated at least one additional target including the calculated ideal ratio mask and the calculated clean speech estimation.