US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 19 for "Self-supervised speech representations by disentangling speakers" (Illinois, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,302, issued on May 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Self-supervised speech representations by disentangling speakers" was invented by Kaizhi Qian (Champaign, Ill.), Yang Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Chuang Gan (Cambridge, Mass.), Dakuo Wang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Bo Wu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system and computer program product is presented for providing a self-supervised speech representation. In one embodiment, audio input is received including speech utterances. A label sequence is generated from these speech utterances by a teacher label generator. ...