US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 27 for "Self-supervised learning for audio processing" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,304, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Self-supervised learning for audio processing" was invented by Chung-Cheng Chiu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Weikeng Qin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jiahui Yu (Bellevue, Wash.), Yonghui Wu (Fremont, Calif.) and Yu Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an audio-processing neural network that includes at least (1) a first encoder network having a first set of encoder network parameters and (2) a decoder network having a set of decoder ne...