SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTION AND USE OF MULTIPLE CHARACTERS FOR DOCUMENT NARRATION

Patent №

US 8,498,867

Granted

2013-07-30

Filed 2010

Owner

K-NFB READING TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12687231

Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a narration of a text in multiple different voices. Further disclosed are techniques and systems for generating an audible output in which different portions of a text are narrated using voice models associated with different characters.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware0.83
Planning0.02
Knowledge representation0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

K-NFB READING TECHNOLOGY, INC.

assignment · 249210290

Assignors

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

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

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