US Patent Issued to Cerence Operating on Aug. 5 for "Speech synthesis with foreign fragments" (Belgian, Italian, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,875, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cerence Operating Co. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Speech synthesis with foreign fragments" was invented by Corinne Bos-Plachez (Baisieux, France), Vito Quinci (Turin, Italy), Alina Lenhardt (Ulm, Germany), Benjamin Vincent Marcel Picart (Merelbeke, Belgium), Martine Marguerite Staessen (Wervik, Belgium) and Athos Toniolo (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synthesizing speech from a textual input includes receiving the textual input, the textual input including native words in a native language and foreign words in a foreign language, and processing the textual input to determine ...