US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 28 for "Techniques for voice conversion" (British, Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,450, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques for voice conversion" was invented by Patrick Lumbantobing (Peterborough, Great Britain), Viacheslav Klimkov (Berlin) and Vincent Laurent J. Pollet (Astene, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques implementable by a computer system are provided. The techniques include receiving a source speech waveform, the source speech waveform including one or more words spoken by a source speaker. The techniques also include generating source speaker characteristics associated with the source speaker based at least in part on the source speech wavefo...