US Patent Issued to SRI International on July 15 for "Controllable, natural paralinguistics for text to speech synthesis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,925, issued on July 15, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Controllable, natural paralinguistics for text to speech synthesis" was invented by Harry Bratt (Mountain View, Calif.), Colleen Richey (Foster City, Calif.) and Maneesh Yadav (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition module receives training data of speech and creates a representation for individual words, non-words, phonemes, and any combination. A set of speech processing detectors analyze the training data of speech from humans communicating. The set of speech processing detectors detect speech parameters that are indicative ...