US Patent Issued to ELECTRONIC ARTS on May 27 for "Expressive speech audio generation for video games" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,491, issued on May 27, was assigned to ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Expressive speech audio generation for video games" was invented by Shahab Raji (Foster City, Calif.), Siddharth Gururani (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zahra Shakeri (Newark, Calif.), Kilol Gupta (Redwood City, Calif.) and Ping Zhong (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification describes a computer-implemented method of training a machine-learned speech audio generation system to generate predicted acoustic features for generated speech audio for use in a video game. The training comprises receiving one or more training examples....