Patent №
US 11,699,430
Granted
2023-07-11
Filed 2021
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
4
ml · nlp · speech · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
17245048
A system and method for providing a text to speech output by receiving user audio data, determining a user region-specific-pronunciation classification according to the audio data, determining text for a response to the user according to the audio data, identifying a portion from the text, where a region specific-pronunciation dictionary includes the portion, and using a phoneme string, from the dictionary selected according to the user region-specific pronunciation classification, for the word in a text to speech output to the user.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 560910603
Assignors
FREED, ANDREW R., THOTEMPUDI, VAMSHI KRISHNA, PEREPA, SUJATHA B.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.