US Patent Issued to Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology on Oct. 14 for "Method, apparatus, computer readable medium, and electronic device of speech synthesis" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,401, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method, apparatus, computer readable medium, and electronic device of speech synthesis" was invented by Haopeng Lin (Beijing) and Zejun Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, a computer readable medium, and an electronic device of speech synthesis. The method includes: obtaining a phoneme sequence corresponding to text to be synthesized; generating a phonemic-level TOBI representation sequence and a prosodic-acoustic feature corresponding to the text to be synthesized based on the phoneme sequence and the text to ...