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Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2021
Applicant:

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Burbank, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aansh Malik, Burbank, CA (US);

Ha Thanh Nguyen, Fullerton, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/47 (2020.01); G06F 40/58 (2020.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/47 (2020.01); G06F 40/58 (2020.01); G10L 15/005 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for automated voice casting compares candidate voices samples from candidate speakers in a target language with a primary voice sample from a primary speaker in a primary language. Utterances in the audio samples of the candidates speakers and the primary speaker are identified and typed and voice samples generated that meet applicable utterance type criteria. A neural network is used to generate an embedding for the voice samples. A voice sample can include groups of different utterance types and embeddings generated for each utterance group in the voice sample and then combined in a weighted form wherein the resulting embedding emphasizes selected utterance types. Similarities between embeddings for the candidate voice samples relative to the primary voice sample are evaluated and used to select a candidate speaker that is a vocal match.


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