ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,118, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Operation method of speech synthesis system" was invented by Joon Hyuk Chang (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Woong Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an operating method of a speech synthesis system, which includes, inputting a first text and a first speech for the first text, and a second text and a second speech for the second text; generating a speech synthesis model trained by applying the first and second texts and the first and second speeches to curri...