SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIPLE LANGUAGE DOCUMENT NARRATION

Patent №

US 8,498,866

Granted

2013-07-30

Filed 2010

Owner

K-NFB READING TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Lab

—

AI components

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12687220

Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a narration of a text in multiple different languages where the portions of the text narrated using the different voices associated with different languages are selected by a user.

Natural language SpeechG10L 13/00

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AI classification

Natural language1.00

Speech1.00

Machine learning0.36

AI hardware0.25

Knowledge representation0.15

Planning0.00

Evolutionary computation0.00

Vision0.00

Ownership

K-NFB READING TECHNOLOGY, INC.

assignment · 249210301

Assignors

KURZWEIL, RAYMOND C., ALBRECHT, PAUL, CHAPMAN, PETER

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

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