Patents by Inventor Ignacio Lopez Moreno
Ignacio Lopez 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).
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Patent number: 11393476Abstract: Implementations relate to determining a language for speech recognition of a spoken utterance, received via an automated assistant interface, for interacting with an automated assistant. In various implementations, audio data indicative of a voice input that includes a natural language request from a user may be applied as input across multiple speech-to-text (“STT”) machine learning models to generate multiple candidate speech recognition outputs. Each STT machine learning model may trained in a particular language. For each respective STT machine learning model of the multiple STT models, the multiple candidate speech recognition outputs may be analyzed to determine an entropy score for the respective STT machine learning model. Based on the entropy scores, a target language associated with at least one STT machine learning model of the multiple STT machine learning models may be selected. The automated assistant may respond to the request using the target language.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Lukas Lopatovsky, Ágoston Weisz
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Publication number: 20220157298Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein enable training and/or utilizing speaker dependent (SD) speech models which are personalizable to any user of a client device. Various implementations include personalizing a SD speech model for a target user by processing, using the SD speech model, a speaker embedding corresponding to the target user along with an instance of audio data. The SD speech model can be personalized for an additional target user by processing, using the SD speech model, an additional speaker embedding, corresponding to the additional target user, along with another instance of audio data. Additional or alternative implementations include training the SD speech model based on a speaker independent speech model using teacher student learning.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Quan Wang, Jason Pelecanos, Li Wan, Alexander Gruenstein, Hakan Erdogan
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Publication number: 20220148577Abstract: In some implementations, authentication tokens corresponding to known users of a device are stored on the device. An utterance from a speaker is received. The speaker of the utterance is classified as not a known user of the device. A query that includes the authentication tokens that correspond to known users of the device, a representation of the utterance and an indication that the speaker was classified as not a known user of the device is provided to the server. A response to the query is received at the device and from the server based on the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Meltem Oktem, Taral Pradeep Joglekar, Fnu Heryandi, Pu-sen Chao, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Salil Rajadhyaksha, Alexander H. Gruenstein, Diego Melendo Casado
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Publication number: 20220139373Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that enable determining and/or utilizing a misrecognition of a spoken utterance, where the misrecognition is generated using an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. Various implementations include determining a recognition based on the spoken utterance and a previous utterance spoken prior to the spoken utterance. Additionally or alternatively, implementations include personalizing an ASR engine for a user based on the spoken utterance and the previous utterance spoken prior to the spoken utterance (e.g., based on audio data capturing the previous utterance and a text representation of the spoken utterance).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Ágoston Weisz, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Alexandru Dovlecel
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Publication number: 20220122611Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that enable processing of audio data to generate one or more refined versions of audio data, where each of the refined versions of audio data isolate one or more utterances of a single respective human speaker. Various implementations generate a refined version of audio data that isolates utterance(s) of a single human speaker by processing a spectrogram representation of the audio data (generated by processing the audio data with a frequency transformation) using a mask generated by processing the spectrogram of the audio data and a speaker embedding for the single human speaker using a trained voice filter model. Output generated over the trained voice filter model is processed using an inverse of the frequency transformation to generate the refined audio data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2022Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Quan Wang, Prashant Sridhar, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Hannah Muckenhirn
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Publication number: 20220122612Abstract: A method of generating an accurate speaker representation for an audio sample includes receiving a first audio sample from a first speaker and a second audio sample from a second speaker. The method includes dividing a respective audio sample into a plurality of audio slices. The method also includes, based on the plurality of slices, generating a set of candidate acoustic embeddings where each candidate acoustic embedding includes a vector representation of acoustic features. The method further includes removing a subset of the candidate acoustic embeddings from the set of candidate acoustic embeddings. The method additionally includes generating an aggregate acoustic embedding from the remaining candidate acoustic embeddings in the set of candidate acoustic embeddings after removing the subset of the candidate acoustic embeddings.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Yeming Fang, Quan Wang, Pedro Jose Moreno Mengibar, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Gang Feng, Fang Chu, Jin Shi, Jason William Pelecanos
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Patent number: 11238847Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein enable training and/or utilizing speaker dependent (SD) speech models which are personalizable to any user of a client device. Various implementations include personalizing a SD speech model for a target user by processing, using the SD speech model, a speaker embedding corresponding to the target user along with an instance of audio data. The SD speech model can be personalized for an additional target user by processing, using the SD speech model, an additional speaker embedding, corresponding to the additional target user, along with another instance of audio data. Additional or alternative implementations include training the SD speech model based on a speaker independent speech model using teacher student learning.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Quan Wang, Jason Pelecanos, Li Wan, Alexander Gruenstein, Hakan Erdogan
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Patent number: 11238848Abstract: In some implementations, authentication tokens corresponding to known users of a device are stored on the device. An utterance from a speaker is received. The speaker of the utterance is classified as not a known user of the device. A query that includes the authentication tokens that correspond to known users of the device, a representation of the utterance, and an indication that the speaker was classified as not a known user of the device is provided to the server. A response to the query is received at the device and from the server based on the query.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Meltem Oktem, Taral Pradeep Joglekar, Fnu Heryandi, Pu-sen Chao, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Salil Rajadhyaksha, Alexander H. Gruenstein, Diego Melendo Casado
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Patent number: 11217254Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that enable processing of audio data to generate one or more refined versions of audio data, where each of the refined versions of audio data isolate one or more utterances of a single respective human speaker. Various implementations generate a refined version of audio data that isolates utterance(s) of a single human speaker by processing a spectrogram representation of the audio data (generated by processing the audio data with a frequency transformation) using a mask generated by processing the spectrogram of the audio data and a speaker embedding for the single human speaker using a trained voice filter model. Output generated over the trained voice filter model is processed using an inverse of the frequency transformation to generate the refined audio data.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Quan Wang, Prashant Sridhar, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Hannah Muckenhirn
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Publication number: 20210366491Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
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Publication number: 20210343276Abstract: In some implementations, an utterance is determined to include a particular user speaking a hotword based at least on a first set of samples of the particular user speaking the hotword. In response to determining that an utterance includes a particular user speaking a hotword based at least on a first set of samples of the particular user speaking the hotword, at least a portion of the utterance is stored as a new sample. A second set of samples of the particular user speaking the utterance is obtained, where the second set of samples includes the new sample and less than all the samples in the first set of samples. A second utterance is determined to include the particular user speaking the hotword based at least on the second set of samples of the user speaking the hotword.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Diego Melendo Casado
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Publication number: 20210312907Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein enable training and/or utilizing speaker dependent (SD) speech models which are personalizable to any user of a client device. Various implementations include personalizing a SD speech model for a target user by processing, using the SD speech model, a speaker embedding corresponding to the target user along with an instance of audio data. The SD speech model can be personalized for an additional target user by processing, using the SD speech model, an additional speaker embedding, corresponding to the additional target user, along with another instance of audio data. Additional or alternative implementations include training the SD speech model based on a speaker independent speech model using teacher student learning.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Quan Wang, Jason Pelecanos, Li Wan, Alexander Gruenstein, Hakan Erdogan
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Publication number: 20210280177Abstract: Determining a language for speech recognition of a spoken utterance received via an automated assistant interface for interacting with an automated assistant. Implementations can enable multilingual interaction with the automated assistant, without necessitating a user explicitly designate a language to be utilized for each interaction. Implementations determine a user profile that corresponds to audio data that captures a spoken utterance, and utilize language(s), and optionally corresponding probabilities, assigned to the user profile in determining a language for speech recognition of the spoken utterance. Some implementations select only a subset of languages, assigned to the user profile, to utilize in speech recognition of a given spoken utterance of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Pu-sen Chao, Diego Melendo Casado, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, William Zhang
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Publication number: 20210272562Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Diego Melendo Casado, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez
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Patent number: 11107478Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
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Publication number: 20210256981Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, to facilitate language independent-speaker verification. In one aspect, a method includes actions of receiving, by a user device, audio data representing an utterance of a user. Other actions may include providing, to a neural network stored on the user device, input data derived from the audio data and a language identifier. The neural network may be trained using speech data representing speech in different languages or dialects. The method may include additional actions of generating, based on output of the neural network, a speaker representation and determining, based on the speaker representation and a second representation, that the utterance is an utterance of the user. The method may provide the user with access to the user device based on determining that the utterance is an utterance of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Li Wan, Quan Wang
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Patent number: 11087743Abstract: In some implementations, an utterance is determined to include a particular user speaking a hotword based at least on a first set of samples of the particular user speaking the hotword. In response to determining that an utterance includes a particular user speaking a hotword based at least on a first set of samples of the particular user speaking the hotword, at least a portion of the utterance is stored as a new sample. A second set of samples of the particular user speaking the utterance is obtained, where the second set of samples includes the new sample and less than all the samples in the first set of samples. A second utterance is determined to include the particular user speaking the hotword based at least on the second set of samples of the user speaking the hotword.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Diego Melendo Casado
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Publication number: 20210217411Abstract: Speaker diarization techniques that enable processing of audio data to generate one or more refined versions of the audio data, where each of the refined versions of the audio data isolates one or more utterances of a single respective human speaker. Various implementations generate a refined version of audio data that isolates utterance(s) of a single human speaker by generating a speaker embedding for the single human speaker, and processing the audio data using a trained generative model—and using the speaker embedding in determining activations for hidden layers of the trained generative model during the processing. Output is generated over the trained generative model based on the processing, and the output is the refined version of the audio data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Luis Carlos Cobo Rus
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Publication number: 20210217404Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Ye Jia, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Jonathan Shen, Ruoming Pang, Ron J. Weiss, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Fei Ren, Yu Zhang, Quan Wang, Patrick Nguyen
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Patent number: 11031002Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Diego Melendo Casado, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez