US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Oct. 27 for "Enhanced accent conversion for virtual conferencing and audio recordings" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,299, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhanced accent conversion for virtual conferencing and audio recordings" was invented by Dading Chong (Hangzhou, China), Dongyang Dai (Hangzhou, China), Yuzong Liu (Bothell, Wash.), Chao Wang (Hangzhou, China), Tao Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Shenquan Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for enhanced accent conversion are provided. In an example method, an audio input is accessed and a first set of features is extracted from the audio input using a first neural network. A second set of features is further...