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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2020
Applicants:
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dolby International Ab, Amsterdam, NL;
Inventors:
Berkan Kadioglu, Boston, MA (US);
Michael Getty Horgan, Brewster, MA (US);
Jordi Pons Puig, Catalunya, ES;
Xiaoyu Liu, Dublin, CA (US);
Assignees:
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dolby International AB, Dublin, IE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0272 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2023.01); G06N 3/0442 (2023.01); G10L 21/028 (2013.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/028 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
A speech separation server comprises a deep-learning encoder with nonlinear activation. The encoder is programmed to take a mixture audio waveform in the time domain, learn generalized patterns from the mixture audio waveform, and generate an encoded representation that effectively characterizes the mixture audio waveform for speech separation.