Patents by Inventor Martin Radfar

Martin Radfar 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: 20240321264
    Abstract: Techniques for performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) are described. In some embodiments, an ASR component integrates contextual information from user profile data into audio encoding data to predict a token(s) corresponding to a spoken input. The user profile data may include personalized words, such as, contact names, device names, etc. The ASR component determines word embedding data using the personalized words. The ASR component is configured to apply attention to audio frames that are relevant to the personalized words based on processing the audio encoding data and the word embedding data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jing Liu, Feng-Ju Chang, Athanasios Mouchtaris, Martin Radfar, Maurizio Omologo, Siegfried Kunzmann
  • Patent number: 12002451
    Abstract: Techniques for performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) are described. In some embodiments, an ASR component integrates contextual information from user profile data into audio encoding data to predict a token(s) corresponding to a spoken input. The user profile data may include personalized words, such as, contact names, device names, etc. The ASR component determines word embedding data using the personalized words. The ASR component is configured to apply attention to audio frames that are relevant to the personalized words based on processing the audio encoding data and the word embedding data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Liu, Feng-Ju Chang, Athanasios Mouchtaris, Martin Radfar, Maurizio Omologo, Siegfried Kunzmann
  • Patent number: 11915690
    Abstract: A multi-channel transformer acoustic model that processes a plurality of audio signals output by microphones of a microphone array and outputs probabilities for acoustic units of an utterance represented in the audio signals. The audio signals represent the individual microphones' respective capturing of the utterance. The multi-channel model may perform self-attention on embeddings of the audio signals and then cross-channel attention across the attended audio signals. The cross-channel attention may involve processing of signals relative to each other to model the relationships across channels within and across time frames. The multi-channel model may include a transducer to perform processing frame-by-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng-Ju Chang, Martin Radfar, Athanasios Mouchtaris, Brian King, Siegfried Kunzmann, Maurizio Omologo