US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for text-to-speech synthesis" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,608, issued on Oct. 20.

"Systems and methods for text-to-speech synthesis" was invented by Jeongki Min (Seoul, South Korea), Bonhwa Ku (Seoul, South Korea) and Hanseok Ko (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for text to speech synthesis. A system receives, via a data interface, an input text, a reference spectrogram, and at least one of an emotion ID or speaker ID. The system generates, via a first encoder, a vector representation of the input text. The system generates, via a second encoder, a vector representation of the reference spectrogram. The system generat...