US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 21 for "Speech synthesis and speech recognition" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,120, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Speech synthesis and speech recognition" was invented by Xu Tan (Redmond, Wash.), Tao Qin (Beijing), Junwei Gan (Redmond, Wash.), Sheng Zhao (Redmond, Wash.) and Tieyan Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution for speech synthesis and speech recognition. In this solution, a Text to Speech (TTS) model and an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model supporting at least one language are obtained. The TTS model and the ASR model are adjusted, based on a first set of pai...