US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 4 for "Emphasizing portions of synthesized speech" (British, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,511, issued on March 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Emphasizing portions of synthesized speech" was invented by Arnaud Vincent Pierre Yves Joly (Cambridge, Great Britain), Marco Nicolis (London), Elena Sergeevna Sokolova (London), Jedrzej Sobanski (Gdansk, Poland), Mateusz Aleksander Lajszczak (Cambridge, Great Britain), Arent van Korlaar (London) and Ruizhe Li (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural text-to-speech system may be configured to emphasize words. Applying emphasis where appropriate enables the TTS system to better reproduce prosodic characteristics of human speech. Emphasis may make the r...