US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 11 for "Speech codec based generative method for speech enhancement in adverse conditions" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,100, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Speech codec based generative method for speech enhancement in adverse conditions" was invented by Meng Yu (Bellevue, Wash.), Hao Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chunlei Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dong Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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 provi...