Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited received publication of European Patent Application EP4120259A1 for audio generation methods and systems. The invention utilizes multiple neural network architectures including G06N 3/045 (graph neural networks), G06N 3/0475 (transformer-based models), G06N 3/094 (adversarial learning), and G06N 3/0464 (neural architecture search) for audio synthesis applications. The patent is classified under G10L (Speech Processing) and A63F (Video Games) with focus on interactive entertainment audio generation.

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