Patents by Inventor Ching-Hau SUNG

Ching-Hau SUNG 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).

  • System for improving dysarthria speech intelligibility and method thereof
    Patent number: 11328709
    Abstract: A system for improving dysarthria speech intelligibility and method thereof, are provided. In the system, user only needs to provides a set of paired corpus including a reference corpus and a patient corpus, and a speech disordering module can automatically generate a new corpus completely synchronous with the reference corpus, and the new corpus can be used as a training corpus for training a dysarthria voice conversion model. The present invention does not need to use a conventional corpus alignment technology or a manual manner to perform pre-processing on the training corpus, so that manpower cost and time cost can be reduced, and synchronization of the training corpus can be ensured, thereby improving both training and conversion qualities of the voice conversion model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tay-Jyi Lin, Ching-Hau Sung, Che-Chia Pai, Ching-Wei Yeh
  • SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING DYSARTHRIA SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY AND METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20200312302
    Abstract: A system for improving dysarthria speech intelligibility and method thereof, are provided. In the system, user only needs to provides a set of paired corpus including a reference corpus and a patient corpus, and a speech disordering module can automatically generate a new corpus completely synchronous with the reference corpus, and the new corpus can be used as a training corpus for training a dysarthria voice conversion model. The present invention does not need to use a conventional corpus alignment technology or a manual manner to perform pre-processing on the training corpus, so that manpower cost and time cost can be reduced, and synchronization of the training corpus can be ensured, thereby improving both training and conversion qualities of the voice conversion model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Tay-Jyi LIN, Ching-Hau SUNG, Che-Chia PAI, Ching-Wei YEH