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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas Edward Merritt, Cambridge, GB;
Adam Franciszek Nadolski, Gdansk, PL;
Nishant Prateek, Cambridge, GB;
Bartosz Putrycz, Cambridge, GB;
Roberto Barra Chicote, Cambridge, GB;
Vatsal Aggarwal, Cambridge, GB;
Andrew Paul Breen, Norwich, GB;
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/04 (2013.01); G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 25/24 (2013.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01); G10L 13/047 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 13/047 (2013.01); G10L 25/24 (2013.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01);
Abstract
A speech model is trained using multi-task learning. A first task may correspond to how well predicted audio matches training audio; a second task may correspond to a metric of perceived audio quality. The speech model may include, during training, layers related to the second task that are discarded at runtime.