Patents by Inventor Vincent Laurent POLLET

Vincent Laurent POLLET 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).

  • System and method using parameterized speech synthesis to train acoustic models
    Patent number: 11545136
    Abstract: A method for removing private data from an acoustic model includes capturing speech from a large population of users, creating a text-to-speech voice from at least a portion of the large population of users, discarding speech data from a database of speech, creating text-to-speech waveforms from the text-to-speech voice and the new database of speech with the discarded speech data and generating an automatic speech recognition model using the text-to-speech waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Vincent Laurent Pollet, Carl Benjamin Quillen, Philip Charles Woodland, William F. Ganong, III, Steven Hoskins
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD USING PARAMETERIZED SPEECH SYNTHESIS TO TRAIN ACOUSTIC MODELS
    Publication number: 20210118425
    Abstract: A method for removing private data from an acoustic model includes capturing speech from a large population of users, creating a text-to-speech voice from at least a portion of the large population of users, discarding speech data from a database of speech, creating text-to-speech waveforms from the text-to-speech voice and the new database of speech with the discarded speech data and generating an automatic speech recognition model using the text-to-speech waveforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Vincent Laurent POLLET, Carl Benjamin QUILLEN, Philip Charles WOODLAND, William F. GANONG, III, Steven HOSKINS