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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 03, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kaizhi Qian, Champaign, IL (US);

Yang Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);

Shiyu Chang, Elmsford, NY (US);

Jinjun Xiong, Goldens Bridge, NY (US);

Chuang Gan, Cambridge, MA (US);

David Cox, Somerville, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10L 17/04 (2013.01); G10L 21/013 (2013.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10L 17/04 (2013.01); G10L 21/013 (2013.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method is provided of using a machine learning model for disentanglement of prosody in spoken natural language. The method includes encoding, by a computing device, the spoken natural language to produce content code. The method further includes resampling, by the computing device without text transcriptions, the content code to obscure the prosody by applying an unsupervised technique to the machine learning model to generate prosody-obscured content code. The method additionally includes decoding, by the computing device, the prosody-obscured content code to synthesize speech indirectly based upon the content code.


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