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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2020
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Tsubasa Ochiai, Tokyo, JP;
Keisuke Kinoshita, Tokyo, JP;
Marc Delcroix, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Nakatani, Tokyo, JP;
Atsunori Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An audio signal processing apparatus () includes a first auxiliary feature conversion unit () and a second auxiliary feature conversion unit () that convert a plurality of signals relating to processing of an audio signal of a target speaker into a plurality of auxiliary features for the plurality of signals using a plurality of auxiliary neural networks corresponding to the plurality of signals, and an audio signal processing unit () that estimates information regarding an audio signal of the target speaker included in a mixed audio signal using a main neural network based on an input feature of the mixed audio signal and the plurality of auxiliary features, wherein the plurality of signals relating to processing of the audio signal of the target speaker are two or more pieces of information of different modalities.