Patents by Inventor Shigeki KARITA

Shigeki KARITA 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: 11837222
    Abstract: A determination device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to accept input of a plurality of sequences provided as candidates for a solution to one given input, and determine, for two sequences of the plurality of sequences, a sequence that has a higher accuracy than the other sequence of the two sequences, using a model expressed as a neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunori Ogawa, Marc Delcroix, Shigeki Karita, Tomohiro Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20230032372
    Abstract: The extraction unit 132 extracts a second word corresponding to a first word included in a first text from among a plurality of words belonging to a predetermined domain. The determination unit 133 determines whether a predetermined condition for the word class of the first word is satisfied or not. When it is determined by the determination unit 133 that the condition is satisfied, the generation unit 134 generates a second text in which the first word of the first text is exchanged with the second word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunori OGAWA, Naohiro TAWARA, Shigeki KARITA, Marc DELCROIX
  • Patent number: 11551667
    Abstract: A learning device (10) includes a feature extracting unit (11) that extracts features of speech from speech data for training, a probability calculating unit (12) that, on the basis of the features of speech, performs prefix searching using a speech recognition model of which a neural network is representative, and calculates a posterior probability of a recognition character string to obtain a plurality of hypothetical character strings, an error calculating unit (13) that calculates an error by word error rates of the plurality of hypothetical character strings and a correct character string for training, and obtains a parameter for the entire model that minimizes an expected value of summation of loss in the word error rates, and an updating unit (14) that updates a parameter of the model in accordance with the parameter obtained by the error calculating unit (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeki Karita, Atsunori Ogawa, Marc Delcroix, Tomohiro Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20220262356
    Abstract: A reranking device include a hypothesis input unit configured to receive input of N-best hypotheses associated with scores of a speech recognition accuracy; a hypothesis selection unit configured to select two hypotheses to be determined from among the input N-best hypotheses. Further, there is a determination unit configured to determine which accuracy of two hypotheses is higher by using: a plurality of first auxiliary model to M-th auxiliary model represented by such a neural network as to be capable of converting, when the selected two hypotheses are given, the two hypotheses into hidden state vectors, and determining which of the two hypotheses is higher based on the hidden state vectors of the two hypotheses; and a main model represented by such a neural network as to be capable of determining which of the two hypotheses is higher based on the hidden state vectors of the two hypotheses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunori OGAWA, Marc DELCROIX, Shigeki KARITA, Tomohiro NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20220189456
    Abstract: A linguistic content and speaking style disentanglement model includes a content encoder, a style encoder, and a decoder. The content encoder is configured to receive input speech as input and generate a latent representation of linguistic content for the input speech output. The content encoder is trained to disentangle speaking style information from the latent representation of linguistic content. The style encoder is configured to receive the input speech as input and generate a latent representation of speaking style for the input speech as output. The style encoder is trained to disentangle linguistic content information from the latent representation of speaking style. The decoder is configured to generate output speech based on the latent representation of linguistic content for the input speech and the latent representation of speaking style for the same or different input speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ruoming Pang, Andros Tjandra, Yu Zhang, Shigeki Karita
  • Publication number: 20210056954
    Abstract: A learning device (10) includes a feature extracting unit (11) that extracts features of speech from speech data for training, a probability calculating unit (12) that, on the basis of the features of speech, performs prefix searching using a speech recognition model of which a neural network is representative, and calculates a posterior probability of a recognition character string to obtain a plurality of hypothetical character strings, an error calculating unit (13) that calculates an error by word error rates of the plurality of hypothetical character strings and a correct character string for training, and obtains a parameter for the entire model that minimizes an expected value of summation of loss in the word error rates, and an updating unit (14) that updates a parameter of the model in accordance with the parameter obtained by the error calculating unit (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeki KARITA, Atsunori OGAWA, Marc DELCROIX, Tomohiro NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20210035564
    Abstract: A determination device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to accept input of a plurality of sequences provided as candidates for a solution to one given input, and determine, for two sequences of the plurality of sequences, a sequence that has a higher accuracy than the other sequence of the two sequences, using a model expressed as a neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunori OGAWA, Marc DELCROIX, Shigeki KARITA, Tomohiro NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20200365143
    Abstract: A learning device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to receive an input of a plurality of series for learning having known accuracy, and learn a model represented by a neural network, the model being capable of determining accuracy levels of two series when given feature amounts of the two series among the plurality of series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunori OGAWA, Marc DELCROIX, Shigeki KARITA, Tomohiro NAKATANI