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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2023
Tencent America Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Meng Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Hao Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chunlei Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dong Yu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to receive an audio signal obtained from a microphone, input the audio signal into a neural-network pipeline, the neural-network pipeline including a convolutional network that receives the audio signal and provides a first output of the convolutional network to an enhancer, the enhancer including a deep complex convolutional recurrent network that receives the first output along with a mel spectrogram of the audio signal and outputs a second output to at least one of a vocoder and a decoder, and control an output of an enhanced audio signal from the at least one of the vocoder and the decoder.