US Patent Issued to NAVER on July 15 for "End-to-end neural text-to-speech model with prosody control" (French, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,926, issued on July 15, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"End-to-end neural text-to-speech model with prosody control" was invented by Ioan Calapodescu (Grenoble, France), Inyoung Kim (Meylan, France), Laurent Besacier (Seyssinet Pariset, France) and Siddique Latif (Queensland, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating an end-to-end neural text-to-speech (TTS) model to process an input text to generate speech representations. An annotated set of text documents including annotations inserted therein to indicate prosodic features are input into the TTS model. The TTS model is tra...