US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 16 for "On-device speech synthesis of textual segments for training of on-device speech recognition model" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,757, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"On-device speech synthesis of textual segments for training of on-device speech recognition model" was invented by Francoise Beaufays (Mountain View, Calif.), Johan Schalkwyk (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Khe Chai Sim (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processor(s) of a client device can: identify a textual segment stored locally at the client device; process the textual segment, using a speech synthesis model stored locally at the client device, to generate synthesized speech audio data that includes synthesized speech of the identified textual segmen...