US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 26 for "End-to-end speech waveform generation through data density gradient estimation" (American, Canadian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,633, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"End-to-end speech waveform generation through data density gradient estimation" was invented by Byungha Chun (Tokyo), Mohammad Norouzi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Nanxin Chen (Baltimore), Ron J. Weiss (New York), William Chan (Toronto), Yu Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yonghui Wu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating waveforms conditioned on phoneme sequences. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining a phoneme sequence; processing ...