Patents by Inventor Dading Chong

Dading Chong 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).

  • Patent number: 12682909
    Abstract: Systems and methods for machine learning based audio watermarking for videoconferencing are provided. For example, a computing device accesses an original audio signal and a watermark to be embedded into the original audio signal and extracts, using an audio encoder, a set of audio features from the original audio signal. The audio encoder is a machine learning model. The computing device further extracts, using a watermark encoder, a set of watermark features from the watermark. The watermark encoder is also a machine learning model. The computing device combines the set of audio features and the set of watermark features to generate a set of features, compresses the set of features, and transmits the compressed set of features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Zoom Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Dading Chong, Dongyang Dai, Yuzong Liu, Chao Wang, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 12626686
    Abstract: Techniques for cross-lingual voice cloning for low-resource languages are provided. In an example method, a computing device receives a first speech sample, the first speech sample characterized by a first voice and spoken in a first language and a text input in a second language. The computing device generates, using a first trained ML model trained to encode the text input to an encoded representation that characterizes the text input spoken in a second voice in the second language, the encoded representation of the text input. The computing device generates, using a second trained ML model trained to generate a spectrogram based on the encoded representation of the text input spoken in the second language, the spectrogram of the text input, the spectrogram characterized by the text input spoken in the first voice in the second language. The computing device generates an audio output based on the spectrogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Zoom Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Dading Chong, Dongyang Dai, Xiao Song, Chao Wang, Sheng Yuan
  • Publication number: 20250279085
    Abstract: Systems and methods of multi-modal adversarial training for zero-shot voice cloning are provided. A communication platform provides training transcript data and training speaker data to a text-to-speech (TTS) model to obtains synthesized audio data comprising synthesized acoustic features and synthesized prosodic features. The communication platform determines determine a first classification prediction using a first discriminator model and a second classification prediction using a second discriminator model. The communication platform trains the first discriminator model and the second discriminator model based on the first classification prediction and the second classification prediction. The communication platform trains the TTS model to obtain a trained TTS model based on ground truth acoustic features, ground truth prosodic features, the synthesized acoustic features, the synthesized prosodic features, the first classification prediction, and the second classification prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Publication date: September 4, 2025
    Applicant: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Dading Chong, Dongyang Dai, John Janiczek, Yuzong Liu, Chao Wang, Tao Wang
  • Publication number: 20250225979
    Abstract: The accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks is improved using trained models. A speech recognition model is applied in a noisy environment where speech is spoken at a distance from the microphones. The techniques may include extracting speech features, data augmentation by adding feature perturbation, and/or a multi-domain end-to-end speech recognition model. In some implementations, the described technology includes using a teacher-group knowledge distillation strategy to train a deep end-to-end speech recognition model on original speech samples and the sample speech augmentation of the original speech samples, that outputs recognized text transcriptions corresponding to speech detected in the original speech samples and the sample speech augmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Dading Chong, Zhaoyi Liu, Vijay Parthasarathy, Xiao Song
  • Patent number: 12266346
    Abstract: The accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks is improved using trained models. A speech recognition model is applied in a noisy environment where speech is spoken at a distance from the microphones. The techniques may include extracting speech features, data augmentation by adding feature perturbation, and/or a multi-domain end-to-end speech recognition model. In some implementations, the described technology includes using a teacher-group knowledge distillation strategy to train a deep end-to-end speech recognition model on original speech samples and the sample speech augmentation of the original speech samples, that outputs recognized text transcriptions corresponding to speech detected in the original speech samples and the sample speech augmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Zoom Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Dading Chong, Zhaoyi Liu, Vijay Parthasarathy, Xiao Song
  • Publication number: 20230033768
    Abstract: The accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks is improved using trained models. A speech recognition model is applied in a noisy environment where speech is spoken at a distance from the microphones. The techniques may include extracting speech features, data augmentation by adding feature perturbation, and/or a multi-domain end-to-end speech recognition model. In some implementations, the described technology includes using a teacher-group knowledge distillation strategy to train a deep end-to-end speech recognition model on original speech samples and the sample speech augmentation of the original speech samples, that outputs recognized text transcriptions corresponding to speech detected in the original speech samples and the sample speech augmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Dading Chong, Zhaoyi Liu, Vijay Parthasarathy, Xiao Song