Patent №
US 7,966,186
Granted
2011-06-21
Filed 2008
Owner
AT&T CORP.
+2 more
Lab
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AI components
2
nlp · speech
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12264622
A system and method for generating a synthetic text-to-speech TTS voice are disclosed. A user is presented with at least one TTS voice and at least one voice characteristic. A new synthetic TTS voice is generated by blending a plurality of existing TTS voices according to the selected voice characteristics. The blending of voices involves interpolating segmented parameters of each TTS voice. Segmented parameters may be, for example, prosodic characteristics of the speech such as pitch, volume, phone durations, accents, stress, mis-pronunciations and emotion.
AI classification
Ownership
AT&T CORP.
assignment · 344800900
AT&T PROPERTIES, LLC
assignment · 344800960
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.
assignment · 344810031
Assignors
KAPILOW, DAVID A., ROSEN, KENNETH H., SCHROETER, JUERGEN
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.