US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for character-to-phone conversion" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,563, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for character-to-phone conversion" was invented by Jia Cui (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for training a model to perform end-to-end character-to-phoneme (C2P) conversion include: selecting a plurality of unlabeled sentences from a first data source, selecting a plurality of labeled sentences from a second data source, preprocessing a combined corpus of the selected unlabeled and labeled sentences to extract a plurality of linguistic features, generating mixed training data by automatically labeli...