Patents by Inventor Alanna Foster Slocum

Alanna Foster Slocum 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).

  • Publication number: 20230386506
    Abstract: A method for determining synthetic speech includes receiving audio data characterizing speech in audio data obtained by a user device. The method also includes generating, using a trained self-supervised model, a plurality of audio features vectors each representative of audio features of a portion of the audio data. The method also includes generating, using a shallow discriminator model, a score indicating a presence of synthetic speech in the audio data based on the corresponding audio features of each audio feature vector of the plurality of audio feature vectors. The method also includes determining whether the score satisfies a synthetic speech detection threshold. When the score satisfies the synthetic speech detection threshold, the method includes determining that the speech in the audio data obtained by the user device comprises synthetic speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joel Shor, Alanna Foster Slocum
  • Patent number: 11756572
    Abstract: A method for determining synthetic speech includes receiving audio data characterizing speech in audio data obtained by a user device. The method also includes generating, using a trained self-supervised model, a plurality of audio features vectors each representative of audio features of a portion of the audio data. The method also includes generating, using a shallow discriminator model, a score indicating a presence of synthetic speech in the audio data based on the corresponding audio features of each audio feature vector of the plurality of audio feature vectors. The method also includes determining whether the score satisfies a synthetic speech detection threshold. When the score satisfies the synthetic speech detection threshold, the method includes determining that the speech in the audio data obtained by the user device comprises synthetic speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joel Shor, Alanna Foster Slocum
  • Publication number: 20230260521
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a speaker identification (SID) model trained to predict speaker embeddings from utterances spoken by different speakers, the SID model includes a trained audio encoder and a trained SID head. The method also includes receiving a plurality of synthetic speech detection (SSD) training utterances that include a set of human-originated speech samples and a set of synthetic speech samples. The method also includes training, using the trained audio encoder, a SSD head on the SSD training utterances to learn to detect the presence of synthetic speech in audio encodings encoded by the trained audio encoder. The operations also include providing, for execution on a computing device, a multitask neural network model for performing both SID tasks and SSD tasks on input audio data in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alanna Foster Slocum, Yiling Huang, Shelly Bensal, Quan Wang