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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2022
Applicant:
Abbas Rafii, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Abbas Rafii, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/16 (2006.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/16 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2013.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01); G10L 2015/025 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hearing aid system presents a hearing impaired user with customized enhanced intelligibility speech sound in a preferred language while maintaining the voice identity of speaker. The system includes a neural network model trained with a set of source speech data representing sampling from a speech population relevant to the user. The model is also custom trained with a set of parallel or non-parallel alternative articulations, collected during an interactive session with user or algorithmically generated based on the hearing profile of the user or category of users with common linguistic and hearing profiles.