Patent ID: 11961504
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A computing system comprising:
a memory; and
a processor configured to extract acoustic metadata from each portion of a signal before converting the signal from a first acoustic domain to a feature domain, wherein the signal is divided into a plurality of portions, to receive feature-based voice data associated with the first acoustic domain, wherein the feature-based voice data is converted from the signal in the first acoustic domain to the feature domain, to determine a phoneme-rate associated with the first acoustic domain based upon, at least in part, the acoustic metadata, to receive a selection of a target acoustic domain, to determine a phoneme-rate associated with the target acoustic domain, and to perform one or more rate-based augmentations on at least a portion of the feature-based voice data converted from the signal in the first acoustic domain to the feature domain, thus defining rate-based augmented feature-based voice data, wherein the one or more rate-based augmentation is a change to a speaking rate within the at least the portion of the feature-based voice data, wherein performing the one or more rate-based augmentations to the at least a portion of the feature-based voice data includes adjusting the phoneme-rate associated with the first acoustic domain toward the phoneme-rate associated with the target acoustic domain.