ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,924, issued on April 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Text to speech processing method, terminal, and server" was invented by Tao Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A text to speech processing method implemented by a terminal includes detecting an instruction to perform a text to speech conversion, sending text to a server downloading from the server, audio data based on the text, determining whether a first frame of playable audio data is downloaded within a preset duration, and continuing to download remaining audio data when the first frame is downloaded within the preset duration."

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