US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 23 for "Spontaneous text to speech (TTS) synthesis" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,825, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Spontaneous text to speech (TTS) synthesis" was invented by Ran Zhang (Redmond, Wash.), Jian Luan (Beijing) and Yahuan Cong (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for spontaneous text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. A target text may be obtained. A fluency reference factor may be determined based at least on the target text. An acoustic feature corresponding to the target text may be generated with the fluency reference factor. A speech waveform corresponding to the target text may b...