US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on March 18 for "Method, apparatus and system for hybrid speech synthesis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,889, issued on March 18, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Amsterdam Zuidoost, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus and system for hybrid speech synthesis" was invented by Ahmed Mustafa (Erlangen Bayer, Germany) and Arijit Biswas (Schwaig bei Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding an original speech signal for hybrid adversarial-parametric speech synthesis comprising: (a) receiving quantized original linear prediction coding parameters estimated by applying linear prediction coding analysis filtering to an original speech signal and a quantized compressed representation of a residual of the original...