Patents by Inventor Sercan O. ARIK
Sercan O. ARIK 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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Patent number: 11705107Abstract: Embodiments of a production-quality text-to-speech (TTS) system constructed from deep neural networks are described. System embodiments comprise five major building blocks: a segmentation model for locating phoneme boundaries, a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion model, a phoneme duration prediction model, a fundamental frequency prediction model, and an audio synthesis model. For embodiments of the segmentation model, phoneme boundary detection was performed with deep neural networks using Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss. For embodiments of the audio synthesis model, a variant of WaveNet was created that requires fewer parameters and trains faster than the original. By using a neural network for each component, system embodiments are simpler and more flexible than traditional TTS systems, where each component requires laborious feature engineering and extensive domain expertise. Inference with system embodiments may be performed faster than real time.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. Arik, Mike Chrzanowski, Adam Coates, Gregory Diamos, Andrew Gibiansky, John Miller, Andrew Ng, Jonathan Raiman, Shubhahrata Sengupta, Mohammad Shoeybi
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Patent number: 11651763Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for augmenting neural speech synthesis networks with low-dimensional trainable speaker embeddings in order to generate speech from different voices from a single model. As a starting point for multi-speaker experiments, improved single-speaker model embodiments, which may be referred to generally as Deep Voice 2 embodiments, were developed, as well as a post-processing neural vocoder for Tacotron (a neural character-to-spectrogram model). New techniques for multi-speaker speech synthesis were performed for both Deep Voice 2 and Tacotron embodiments on two multi-speaker TTS datasets—showing that neural text-to-speech systems can learn hundreds of unique voices from twenty-five minutes of audio per speaker.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. Arik, Gregory Diamos, Andrew Gibiansky, John Miller, Kainan Peng, Wei Ping, Jonathan Raiman, Yanqi Zhou
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Patent number: 11238843Abstract: Voice cloning is a highly desired capability for personalized speech interfaces. Neural network-based speech synthesis has been shown to generate high quality speech for a large number of speakers. Neural voice cloning systems that take a few audio samples as input are presented herein. Two approaches, speaker adaptation and speaker encoding, are disclosed. Speaker adaptation embodiments are based on fine-tuning a multi-speaker generative model with a few cloning samples. Speaker encoding embodiments are based on training a separate model to directly infer a new speaker embedding from cloning audios, which is used in or with a multi-speaker generative model. Both approaches achieve good performance in terms of naturalness of the speech and its similarity to original speaker—even with very few cloning audios.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. Arik, Jitong Chen, Kainan Peng, Wei Ping, Yanqi Zhou
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Publication number: 20210049999Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for augmenting neural speech synthesis networks with low-dimensional trainable speaker embeddings in order to generate speech from different voices from a single model. As a starting point for multi-speaker experiments, improved single-speaker model embodiments, which may be referred to generally as Deep Voice 2 embodiments, were developed, as well as a post-processing neural vocoder for Tacotron (a neural character-to-spectrogram model). New techniques for multi-speaker speech synthesis were performed for both Deep Voice 2 and Tacotron embodiments on two multi-speaker TTS datasets—showing that neural text-to-speech systems can learn hundreds of unique voices from twenty-five minutes of audio per speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. ARIK, Gregory DIAMOS, Andrew GIBIANSKY, John MILLER, Kainan PENG, Wei PING, Jonathan RAIMAN, Yanqi ZHOU
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Publication number: 20210027762Abstract: Embodiments of a production-quality text-to-speech (TTS) system constructed from deep neural networks are described. System embodiments comprise five major building blocks: a segmentation model for locating phoneme boundaries, a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion model, a phoneme duration prediction model, a fundamental frequency prediction model, and an audio synthesis model. For embodiments of the segmentation model, phoneme boundary detection was performed with deep neural networks using Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss. For embodiments of the audio synthesis model, a variant of WaveNet was created that requires fewer parameters and trains faster than the original. By using a neural network for each component, system embodiments are simpler and more flexible than traditional TTS systems, where each component requires laborious feature engineering and extensive domain expertise. Inference with system embodiments may be performed faster than real time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. ARIK, Mike CHRZANOWSKI, Adam COATES, Gregory DIAMOS, Andrew GIBIANSKY, John MILLER, Andrew NG, Jonathan RAIMAN, Shubhahrata SENGUPTA, Mohammad SHOEYBI
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Patent number: 10896669Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for augmenting neural speech synthesis networks with low-dimensional trainable speaker embeddings in order to generate speech from different voices from a single model. As a starting point for multi-speaker experiments, improved single-speaker model embodiments, which may be referred to generally as Deep Voice 2 embodiments, were developed, as well as a post-processing neural vocoder for Tacotron (a neural character-to-spectrogram model). New techniques for multi-speaker speech synthesis were performed for both Deep Voice 2 and Tacotron embodiments on two multi-speaker TTS datasets—showing that neural text-to-speech systems can learn hundreds of unique voices from twenty-five minutes of audio per speaker.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. Arik, Gregory Diamos, Andrew Gibiansky, John Miller, Kainan Peng, Wei Ping, Jonathan Raiman, Yanqi Zhou
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Patent number: 10872598Abstract: Embodiments of a production-quality text-to-speech (TTS) system constructed from deep neural networks are described. System embodiments comprise five major building blocks: a segmentation model for locating phoneme boundaries, a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion model, a phoneme duration prediction model, a fundamental frequency prediction model, and an audio synthesis model. For embodiments of the segmentation model, phoneme boundary detection was performed with deep neural networks using Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss. For embodiments of the audio synthesis model, a variant of WaveNet was created that requires fewer parameters and trains faster than the original. By using a neural network for each component, system embodiments are simpler and more flexible than traditional TTS systems, where each component requires laborious feature engineering and extensive domain expertise. Inference with system embodiments may be performed faster than real time.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. Arik, Mike Chrzanowski, Adam Coates, Gregory Diamos, Andrew Gibiansky, John Miller, Andrew Ng, Jonathan Raiman, Shubhahrata Sengupta, Mohammad Shoeybi
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Patent number: 10796686Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of a fully-convolutional attention-based neural text-to-speech (TTS) system, which various embodiments may generally be referred to as Deep Voice 3. Embodiments of Deep Voice 3 match state-of-the-art neural speech synthesis systems in naturalness while training ten times faster. Deep Voice 3 embodiments were scaled to data set sizes unprecedented for TTS, training on more than eight hundred hours of audio from over two thousand speakers. In addition, common error modes of attention-based speech synthesis networks were identified and mitigated, and several different waveform synthesis methods were compared. Also presented are embodiments that describe how to scale inference to ten million queries per day on one single-GPU server.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. Arik, Wei Ping, Kainan Peng, Sharan Narang, Ajay Kannan, Andrew Gibiansky, Jonathan Raiman, John Miller
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Publication number: 20190251952Abstract: Voice cloning is a highly desired capability for personalized speech interfaces. Neural network-based speech synthesis has been shown to generate high quality speech for a large number of speakers. Neural voice cloning systems that take a few audio samples as input are presented herein. Two approaches, speaker adaptation and speaker encoding, are disclosed. Speaker adaptation embodiments are based on fine-tuning a multi-speaker generative model with a few cloning samples. Speaker encoding embodiments are based on training a separate model to directly infer a new speaker embedding from cloning audios, which is used in or with a multi-speaker generative model. Both approaches achieve good performance in terms of naturalness of the speech and its similarity to original speaker—even with very few cloning audios.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. ARIK, Jitong CHEN, Kainan PENG, Wei PING, Yanqi ZHOU
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Publication number: 20190122651Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of a fully-convolutional attention-based neural text-to-speech (TTS) system, which various embodiments may generally be referred to as Deep Voice 3. Embodiments of Deep Voice 3 match state-of-the-art neural speech synthesis systems in naturalness while training ten times faster. Deep Voice 3 embodiments were scaled to data set sizes unprecedented for TTS, training on more than eight hundred hours of audio from over two thousand speakers. In addition, common error modes of attention-based speech synthesis networks were identified and mitigated, and several different waveform synthesis methods were compared. Also presented are embodiments that describe how to scale inference to ten million queries per day on one single-GPU server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. ARIK, Wei PING, Kainan PENG, Sharan NARANG, Ajay KANNAN, Andrew GIBIANSKY, Jonathan RAIMAN, John MILLER
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Publication number: 20180336880Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for augmenting neural speech synthesis networks with low-dimensional trainable speaker embeddings in order to generate speech from different voices from a single model. As a starting point for multi-speaker experiments, improved single-speaker model embodiments, which may be referred to generally as Deep Voice 2 embodiments, were developed, as well as a post-processing neural vocoder for Tacotron (a neural character-to-spectrogram model). New techniques for multi-speaker speech synthesis were performed for both Deep Voice 2 and Tacotron embodiments on two multi-speaker TTS datasets—showing that neural text-to-speech systems can learn hundreds of unique voices from twenty-five minutes of audio per speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. ARIK, Gregory DIAMOS, Andrew GIBIANSKY, John MILLER, Kainan PENG, Wei PING, Jonathan RAIMAN, Yanqi ZHOU
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Publication number: 20180247636Abstract: Embodiments of a production-quality text-to-speech (TTS) system constructed from deep neural networks are described. System embodiments comprise five major building blocks: a segmentation model for locating phoneme boundaries, a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion model, a phoneme duration prediction model, a fundamental frequency prediction model, and an audio synthesis model. For embodiments of the segmentation model, phoneme boundary detection was performed with deep neural networks using Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss. For embodiments of the audio synthesis model, a variant of WaveNet was created that requires fewer parameters and trains faster than the original. By using a neural network for each component, system embodiments are simpler and more flexible than traditional TTS systems, where each component requires laborious feature engineering and extensive domain expertise. Inference with system embodiments may be performed faster than real time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Sercan O. ARIK, Mike CHRZANOWSKI, Adam COATES, Gregory DIAMOS, Andrew GIBIANSKY, John MILLER, Andrew NG, Jonathan RAIMAN, Shubhahrata SENGUPTA, Mohammad SHOEYBI