US Patent Issued to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 28 for "Speech synthesis method, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,485, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Speech synthesis method, and electronic device" was invented by Zhengkun Gao (Beijing), Junteng Zhang (Beijing), Tao Sun (Beijing) and Lei Jia (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a speech synthesis method, and an electronic device. The technical solution is described as follows. A text to be synthesized and speech features of a target user are obtained. Predicted first acoustic features based on the text to be synthesized and the speech features are obtained. A target template audio is obtained from a templ...