ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,125, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NetEase (Hangzhou) Network Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Synthesis method for emotion speech and synthesis apparatus" was invented by Haoyue Zhan (Hangzhou, China), Xinyuan Yu (Hangzhou, China) and Yue Lin (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthesis method for emotion speech and a synthesis apparatus are provided; the synthesis method includes: determining, by a terminal, an original text, a target emotion, a target timbre, and an emotion timbre corresponding to a to-be-synthesized emotion speech; splitting the original text to obtain a plurality of target syllables constituting th...