US Patent Issued to NTT on Feb. 10 for "Speaker embedding device, speaker embedding method, and speaker embedding program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,573, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Speaker embedding device, speaker embedding method, and speaker embedding program" was invented by Yusuke Ijima (Tokyo), Kenichi Fujita (Tokyo) and Atsushi Ando (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker embedding apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to accept input of voice data, generate utterance unit segmentation information indicating a duration length for each utterance of a speaker in the input voice data, and use a duration length for each utterance indicated in the generated utterance unit segmentation information as training data and train a speak...