US Patent Issued to ELECTRONIC ARTS on June 24 for "Generating expressive speech audio from text data" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,788, issued on June 24, was assigned to ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Generating expressive speech audio from text data" was invented by Siddharth Gururani (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kilol Gupta (Redwood City, Calif.), Dhaval Shah (Redwood City, Calif.), Zahra Shakeri (Newark, Calif.), Jervis Pinto (Toronto), Mohsen Sardari (Burlingame, Calif.), Navid Aghdaie (San Jose, Calif.) and Kazi Zaman (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use in video game development to generate expressive speech audio comprises a user interface configured to receive user-input text data and a user selection of a speech...