Patents by Inventor Ignacio L. Moreno

Ignacio L. Moreno 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: 20230206909
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using neural networks. A feature vector that models audio characteristics of a portion of an utterance is received. Data indicative of latent variables of multivariate factor analysis is received. The feature vector and the data indicative of the latent variables is provided as input to a neural network. A candidate transcription for the utterance is determined based on at least an output of the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew W. Senior, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 11620991
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using neural networks. A feature vector that models audio characteristics of a portion of an utterance is received. Data indicative of latent variables of multivariate factor analysis is received. The feature vector and the data indicative of the latent variables is provided as input to a neural network. A candidate transcription for the utterance is determined based on at least an output of the neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew W. Senior, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 11620104
    Abstract: Characteristics of a speaker are estimated using speech processing and machine learning. The characteristics of the speaker are used to automatically customize a user interface of a client device for the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Publication number: 20220342632
    Abstract: Characteristics of a speaker are estimated using speech processing and machine learning. The characteristics of the speaker are used to automatically customize a user interface of a client device for the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 11403065
    Abstract: Characteristics of a speaker are estimated using speech processing and machine learning. The characteristics of the speaker are used to automatically customize a user interface of a client device for the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 11137977
    Abstract: The characteristics of the speaker may be used to automatically customize a user interface of a client device for the speaker. For instance, a mobile device may generate a user interface that does not permit access to particular applications on the mobile device, that only includes options to call home and access a camera application, or that includes an override option to cause generation of a user interface for a different class of user than a user class for the automatic customizations applied to the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Publication number: 20210183376
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using neural networks. A feature vector that models audio characteristics of a portion of an utterance is received. Data indicative of latent variables of multivariate factor analysis is received. The feature vector and the data indicative of the latent variables is provided as input to a neural network. A candidate transcription for the utterance is determined based on at least an output of the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew W. Senior, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Publication number: 20210117153
    Abstract: Characteristics of a speaker are estimated using speech processing and machine learning. The characteristics of the speaker are used to automatically customize a user interface of a client device for the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 10438581
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using neural networks. A feature vector that models audio characteristics of a portion of an utterance is received. Data indicative of latent variables of multivariate factor analysis is received. The feature vector and the data indicative of the latent variables is provided as input to a neural network. A candidate transcription for the utterance is determined based on at least an output of the neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew W. Senior, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 9858922
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for caching speech recognition scores. In some implementations, one or more values comprising data about an utterance are received. An index value is determined for the one or more values. An acoustic model score for the one or more received values is selected, from a cache of acoustic model scores that were computed before receiving the one or more values, based on the index value. A transcription for the utterance is determined using the selected acoustic model score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Sanjiv Kumar, Ignacio L. Moreno, Andrew W. Senior, Nikhil Prasad Bhat
  • Publication number: 20160342389
    Abstract: Characteristics of a speaker are estimated using speech processing and machine learning. The characteristics of the speaker are used to automatically customize a user interface of a client device for the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 9401148
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for inputting speech data that corresponds to a particular utterance to a neural network; determining an evaluation vector based on output at a hidden layer of the neural network; comparing the evaluation vector with a reference vector that corresponds to a past utterance of a particular speaker; and based on comparing the evaluation vector and the reference vector, determining whether the particular utterance was likely spoken by the particular speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Lei, Erik McDermott, Ehsan Variani, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 9318112
    Abstract: The technology described in this document can be embodied in a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, at a processing system, a first signal including an output of a speaker device and an additional audio signal. The method also includes determining, by the processing system, based at least in part on a model trained to identify the output of the speaker device, that the additional audio signal corresponds to an utterance of a user. The method further includes initiating a reduction in an audio output level of the speaker device based on determining that the additional audio signal corresponds to the utterance of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Diego Melendo Casado, Ignacio L. Moreno, Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez
  • Publication number: 20150371631
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for caching speech recognition scores. In some implementations, one or more values comprising data about an utterance are received. An index value is determined for the one or more values. An acoustic model score for the one or more received values is selected, from a cache of acoustic model scores that were computed before receiving the one or more values, based on the index value. A transcription for the utterance is determined using the selected acoustic model score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Sanjiv Kumar, Ignacio L. Moreno, Andrew W. Senior, Nikhil Prasad Bhat
  • Publication number: 20150364129
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for language identification. In some implementations, speech data for an utterance is received and provided to (i) a language identification module and (ii) multiple speech recognizers that are each configured to recognize speech in a different language. From the language identification module, language identification scores corresponding to different languages are received, the language identification scores each indicating a likelihood that the utterance is speech in the corresponding language. A language model confidence score that indicates a level of confidence that a language model has in a transcription of the utterance in a language corresponding to the language model is received. A language is selected based on the language identification scores and the language model confidence scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez, Ignacio L. Moreno, David P. Eustis
  • Publication number: 20150235637
    Abstract: The technology described in this document can be embodied in a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, at a processing system, a first signal including an output of a speaker device and an additional audio signal. The method also includes determining, by the processing system, based at least in part on a model trained to identify the output of the speaker device, that the additional audio signal corresponds to an utterance of a user. The method further includes initiating a reduction in an audio output level of the speaker device based on determining that the additional audio signal corresponds to the utterance of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Diego Melendo Casado, Ignacio L. Moreno, Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez
  • Publication number: 20150154002
    Abstract: Characteristics of a speaker are estimated using speech processing and machine learning. The characteristics of the speaker are used to automatically customize a user interface of a client device for the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Publication number: 20150127336
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for inputting speech data that corresponds to a particular utterance to a neural network; determining an evaluation vector based on output at a hidden layer of the neural network; comparing the evaluation vector with a reference vector that corresponds to a past utterance of a particular speaker; and based on comparing the evaluation vector and the reference vector, determining whether the particular utterance was likely spoken by the particular speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Lei, Erik McDermott, Ehsan Variani, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Publication number: 20150039301
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using neural networks. A feature vector that models audio characteristics of a portion of an utterance is received. Data indicative of latent variables of multivariate factor analysis is received. The feature vector and the data indicative of the latent variables is provided as input to a neural network. A candidate transcription for the utterance is determined based on at least an output of the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Senior, Ignacio L. Moreno