US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on March 24 for "Techniques for improved zero-shot voice conversion with a conditional disentangled sequential variational auto-encoder" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,590, issued on March 24, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Techniques for improved zero-shot voice conversion with a conditional disentangled sequential variational auto-encoder" was invented by Chunlei Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Jiachen Lian (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dong Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for voice conversion using a conditional disentangled sequential variational auto-encoder (C-DSVAE) is provided. The method, performed by at least one processor, includes receiving input speech segments, encoding the input speech segme...