Patent №
US 7,571,104
Granted
2009-08-04
Filed 2005
Owner
HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS-WAVEMAKERS, INC.
Lab
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AI components
1
speech
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
11139028
A system and method are provided for creating shorter more natural sounding voice messages and prompts from a plurality of pre-recorded sound segments, the prerecorded sound segments are dynamically cross faded in order to produce a more natural blended sound, various cross fade parameters such as the fade length and the shape of the cross fade amplitude envelopes are determined based on characteristics of the various sound segments being combined.
AI classification
Ownership
HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS-WAVEMAKERS, INC.
assignment · 169560073
Assignors
ESCOTT, ALEX, TAYLOR, NORRIE K.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.