METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MASKING LATENCY IN TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS

Patent №

US 8,355,484

Granted

2013-01-15

Filed 2007

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

4

nlp · speech · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11620842

A technique for masking latency in an automatic dialog system is provided. A communication is received from a user at the automatic dialog system. The communication is processed in the automatic dialog system to provide a response. At least one transitional message is provided to the user from the automatic dialog system while processing the communication. A response is provided to the user from the automatic dialog system in accordance with the received communication from the user.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
AI hardware0.86
Planning0.76
Machine learning0.28
Evolutionary computation0.14
Knowledge representation0.05
Vision0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 187230964

Assignors

EIDE, ELLEN MARIE, HAMZA, WAEL MOHAMED

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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