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System and method for multichannel end-to-end speech recognition

US11133011B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 3, 2017
Grant dateSep 28, 2021
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Expiry dateOct 3, 2037

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2021/02166
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A speech recognition system includes a plurality of microphones to receive acoustic signals including speech signals, an input interface to generate multichannel inputs from the acoustic signals, one or more storages to store a multichannel speech recognition network, wherein the multichannel speech recognition network comprises mask estimation networks to generate time-frequency masks from the multichannel inputs, a beamformer network trained to select a reference channel input from the multichannel inputs using the time-frequency masks and generate an enhanced speech dataset based on the reference channel input and an encoder-decoder network trained to transform the enhanced speech dataset into a text. The system further includes one or more processors, using the multichannel speech recognition network in association with the one or more storages, to generate the text from the multichannel inputs, and an output interface to render the text.

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