US Patent Issued to Google on March 11 for "Method and system for text-to-speech synthesis of streaming text" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,313, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for text-to-speech synthesis of streaming text" was invented by Michael Hassid (Jerusalem), Sapir Caduri (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nadav Bar (Raanana, Israel), Danielle Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Benny Schlesinger (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Michelle Tadmor Ramanovich (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is disclosed for speech synthesis of streaming text. At a text-to-speech ("ITS) system, a real-time streaming text string having a starting point and an ending point may be received, and a first sub-string compri...