US Patent Issued to Altavo on Oct. 27 for "Voice grafting using machine learning" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,300, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Altavo GmbH (Dresden, Germany).

"Voice grafting using machine learning" was invented by Rudolf Murai Von Bunau (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process labeled "voice grafting" can be understood in terms of the source-filter model of speech production as follows: For a patient who has partially or completely lost the ability to phonate, but retained at least a partial ability to articulate, the techniques described herein computationally "graft" the patient's time varying filter function, i.e. articulation, onto a source function, i.e. phonation, which is based on the speech outp...