US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on Feb. 4 for "Voice conversion apparatus, voice conversion learning apparatus, image generation apparatus, image generation learning apparatus, voice conversion method, voice conversion learning method, image generation method, image generation learning method, and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,755, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Voice conversion apparatus, voice conversion learning apparatus, image generation apparatus, image generation learning apparatus, voice conversion method, voice conversion learning method, image generation method, image generation learning method, and computer program" was invented by Hirokazu Kameoka (Musashino, Japan), Ko Tanaka (Musashino, Japan), Yasunori Oishi (Musashino, Japan), Takuhiro Kaneko (Musashino, Japan) and Aaron Valero Puche (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice conversion device is provided with a linguistic infor...