ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,019, issued on May 20, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Learning singing from speech" was invented by Chengzhu Yu (Bellevue, Wash.), Heng Lu (Sammamish, Wash.), Chao Weng (Fremont, Calif.) and Dong Yu (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for converting a singing voice of a first person associated with a first speaker to a singing voice of a second person using a speaking voice of the second person associated with a second speaker. A context associated with one or more phonemes corresponding to the singing voice of a first person is encoded,...