Patents by Inventor Raziel Alvarez
Raziel Alvarez has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240242711Abstract: A method for training hotword detection includes receiving a training input audio sequence including a sequence of input frames that define a hotword that initiates a wake-up process on a device. The method also includes feeding the training input audio sequence into an encoder and a decoder of a memorized neural network. Each of the encoder and the decoder of the memorized neural network include sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers. The method further includes generating a logit at each of the encoder and the decoder based on the training input audio sequence. For each of the encoder and the decoder, the method includes smoothing each respective logit generated from the training input audio sequence, determining a max pooling loss from a probability distribution based on each respective logit, and optimizing the encoder and the decoder based on all max pooling losses associated with the training input audio sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park, Patrick Violette
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Publication number: 20240177708Abstract: A method for detecting a hotword includes receiving a sequence of input frames that characterize streaming audio captured by a user device and generating a probability score indicating a presence of a hotword in the streaming audio using a memorized neural network. The network includes sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers and each SVDF layer includes at least one neuron. Each neuron includes a respective memory component, a first stage configured to perform filtering on audio features of each input frame individually and output to the memory component, and a second stage configured to perform filtering on all the filtered audio features residing in the respective memory component. The method also includes determining whether the probability score satisfies a hotword detection threshold and initiating a wake-up process on the user device for processing additional terms.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park
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Patent number: 11967310Abstract: A method for training hotword detection includes receiving a training input audio sequence including a sequence of input frames that define a hotword that initiates a wake-up process on a device. The method also includes feeding the training input audio sequence into an encoder and a decoder of a memorized neural network. Each of the encoder and the decoder of the memorized neural network include sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers. The method further includes generating a logit at each of the encoder and the decoder based on the training input audio sequence. For each of the encoder and the decoder, the method includes smoothing each respective logit generated from the training input audio sequence, determining a max pooling loss from a probability distribution based on each respective logit, and optimizing the encoder and the decoder based on all max pooling losses associated with the training input audio sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park, Patrick Violette
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Patent number: 11942095Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance of a voice command captured by a user device. The user device has a plurality of different users. The method includes determining a particular user among the plurality of different users of the user device as a speaker of the utterance based on a comparison between the audio data and corresponding speaker verification data stored on memory hardware for each user of the plurality of different users of the user device. The method further includes, based on determining the particular user among the plurality of different users of the user device as the speaker of the utterance, providing, for output from the user device, a message comprising a speaker identifier associated with the particular user.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 11929064Abstract: A method for detecting a hotword includes receiving a sequence of input frames that characterize streaming audio captured by a user device and generating a probability score indicating a presence of a hotword in the streaming audio using a memorized neural network. The network includes sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers and each SVDF layer includes at least one neuron. Each neuron includes a respective memory component, a first stage configured to perform filtering on audio features of each input frame individually and output to the memory component, and a second stage configured to perform filtering on all the filtered audio features residing in the respective memory component. The method also includes determining whether the probability score satisfies a hotword detection threshold and initiating a wake-up process on the user device for processing additional terms.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park
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Publication number: 20230298576Abstract: A method for training hotword detection includes receiving a training input audio sequence including a sequence of input frames that define a hotword that initiates a wake-up process on a device. The method also includes feeding the training input audio sequence into an encoder and a decoder of a memorized neural network. Each of the encoder and the decoder of the memorized neural network include sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers. The method further includes generating a logit at each of the encoder and the decoder based on the training input audio sequence. For each of the encoder and the decoder, the method includes smoothing each respective logit generated from the training input audio sequence, determining a max pooling loss from a probability distribution based on each respective logit, and optimizing the encoder and the decoder based on all max pooling losses associated with the training input audio sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park, Patrick Violette
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Publication number: 20230267935Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 11682385Abstract: A method for training hotword detection includes receiving a training input audio sequence including a sequence of input frames that define a hotword that initiates a wake-up process on a device. The method also includes feeding the training input audio sequence into an encoder and a decoder of a memorized neural network. Each of the encoder and the decoder of the memorized neural network include sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers. The method further includes generating a logit at each of the encoder and the decoder based on the training input audio sequence. For each of the encoder and the decoder, the method includes smoothing each respective logit generated from the training input audio sequence, determining a max pooling loss from a probability distribution based on each respective logit, and optimizing the encoder and the decoder based on all max pooling losses associated with the training input audio sequence.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park, Patrick Violette
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Patent number: 11676608Abstract: A method includes generating an audio signal encoding an utterance captured by a microphone of a user device and transmitting the audio signal encoding the utterance to a server. The server is configured to determine a speaker of the utterance from one of a plurality of different users of the user device based on a comparison between the audio signal encoding the utterance and corresponding speaker verification data, and process the audio signal encoding the utterance using a speech recognition module to identify a particular action. The method also includes executing the particular action identified by the server to cause a particular application to launch on the user device based on user permissions associated with the speaker determined by the server to access the particular data.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 11557282Abstract: A method for detecting a hotword includes receiving a sequence of input frames that characterize streaming audio captured by a user device and generating a probability score indicating a presence of a hotword in the streaming audio using a memorized neural network. The network includes sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers and each SVDF layer includes at least one neuron. Each neuron includes a respective memory component, a first stage configured to perform filtering on audio features of each input frame individually and output to the memory component, and a second stage configured to perform filtering on all the filtered audio features residing in the respective memory component. The method also includes determining whether the probability score satisfies a hotword detection threshold and initiating a wake-up process on the user device for processing additional terms.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park
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Publication number: 20220319522Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Publication number: 20220036155Abstract: Method for quantizing a trained long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network having a plurality of weights, the method comprising: obtaining data specifying trained floating-point values for each of the weights of the trained LSTM neural network, the trained LSTM neural network comprising one or more LSTM layers, each LSTM layer having a plurality of gates and each of the plurality of gates being associated with an input weight matrix and a recurrent weight matrix; quantizing the trained LSTM neural network, comprising: for each gate, quantizing the elements of the input weight matrix to a target fixed bit-width; for each gate, quantizing the elements of the recurrent weight matrix to the target fixed bit-width; and providing data specifying a quantized LSTM neural network for use in performing quantized inference.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventor: Raziel Alvarez Guevara
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Publication number: 20210312913Abstract: A method for training hotword detection includes receiving a training input audio sequence including a sequence of input frames that define a hotword that initiates a wake-up process on a device. The method also includes feeding the training input audio sequence into an encoder and a decoder of a memorized neural network. Each of the encoder and the decoder of the memorized neural network include sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers. The method further includes generating a logit at each of the encoder and the decoder based on the training input audio sequence. For each of the encoder and the decoder, the method includes smoothing each respective logit generated from the training input audio sequence, determining a max pooling loss from a probability distribution based on each respective logit, and optimizing the encoder and the decoder based on all max pooling losses associated with the training input audio sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park, Patrick Violette
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Patent number: 11056101Abstract: A method for training hotword detection includes receiving a training input audio sequence including a sequence of input frames that define a hotword that initiates a wake-up process on a device. The method also includes feeding the training input audio sequence into an encoder and a decoder of a memorized neural network. Each of the encoder and the decoder of the memorized neural network include sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers. The method further includes generating a logit at each of the encoder and the decoder based on the training input audio sequence. For each of the encoder and the decoder, the method includes smoothing each respective logit generated from the training input audio sequence, determining a max pooling loss from a probability distribution based on each respective logit, and optimizing the encoder and the decoder based on all max pooling losses associated with the training input audio sequence.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park, Patrick Violette
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Publication number: 20210142790Abstract: A method for detecting a hotword includes receiving a sequence of input frames that characterize streaming audio captured by a user device and generating a probability score indicating a presence of a hotword in the streaming audio using a memorized neural network. The network includes sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers and each SVDF layer includes at least one neuron. Each neuron includes a respective memory component, a first stage configured to perform filtering on audio features of each input frame individually and output to the memory component, and a second stage configured to perform filtering on all the filtered audio features residing in the respective memory component. The method also includes determining whether the probability score satisfies a hotword detection threshold and initiating a wake-up process on the user device for processing additional terms.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park
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Patent number: 10986498Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 10930269Abstract: A method for detecting a hotword includes receiving a sequence of input frames that characterize streaming audio captured by a user device and generating a probability score indicating a presence of a hotword in the streaming audio using a memorized neural network. The network includes sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers and each SVDF layer includes at least one neuron. Each neuron includes a respective memory component, a first stage configured to perform filtering on audio features of each input frame individually and output to the memory component, and a second stage configured to perform filtering on all the filtered audio features residing in the respective memory component. The method also includes determining whether the probability score satisfies a hotword detection threshold and initiating a wake-up process on the user device for processing additional terms.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park
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Publication number: 20200126537Abstract: A method for training hotword detection includes receiving a training input audio sequence including a sequence of input frames that define a hotword that initiates a wake-up process on a device. The method also includes feeding the training input audio sequence into an encoder and a decoder of a memorized neural network. Each of the encoder and the decoder of the memorized neural network include sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers. The method further includes generating a logit at each of the encoder and the decoder based on the training input audio sequence. For each of the encoder and the decoder, the method includes smoothing each respective logit generated from the training input audio sequence, determining a max pooling loss from a probability distribution based on each respective logit, and optimizing the encoder and the decoder based on all max pooling losses associated with the training input audio sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park, Patrick Violette
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Publication number: 20200020322Abstract: A method for detecting a hotword includes receiving a sequence of input frames that characterize streaming audio captured by a user device and generating a probability score indicating a presence of a hotword in the streaming audio using a memorized neural network. The network includes sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers and each SVDF layer includes at least one neuron. Each neuron includes a respective memory component, a first stage configured to perform filtering on audio features of each input frame individually and output to the memory component, and a second stage configured to perform filtering on all the filtered audio features residing in the respective memory component. The method also includes determining whether the probability score satisfies a hotword detection threshold and initiating a wake-up process on the user device for processing additional terms.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park
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Patent number: 10535354Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting notifications in an enterprise system. In one aspect, a method include actions of obtaining enrollment acoustic data representing an enrollment utterance spoken by a user, obtaining a set of candidate acoustic data representing utterances spoken by other users, determining, for each candidate acoustic data of the set of candidate acoustic data, a similarity score that represents a similarity between the enrollment acoustic data and the candidate acoustic data, selecting a subset of candidate acoustic data from the set of candidate acoustic data based at least on the similarity scores, generating a detection model based on the subset of candidate acoustic data, and providing the detection model for use in detecting an utterance spoken by the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Raziel Alvarez Guevara