ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,616, issued on July 8, was assigned to TMRW Group IP (Luxembourg).
"Cross-lingual voice conversion system and method" was invented by Cevat Yerli (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross-lingual voice conversion system and method comprises a voice feature extractor configured to receive a first voice audio segment in a first language and a second voice audio segment in a second language, and extract, respectively, audio features comprising first-voice, speaker-dependent acoustic features and second-voice, speaker-independent linguistic features. One or more generators are configured to receive extracted feat...