US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Synthetic speech processing related to prosody prediction" (British, Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,782, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Synthetic speech processing related to prosody prediction" was invented by Sri Vishnu Kumar Karlapati (Cambridge, Great Britain), Zack Daniel Hodari (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Alexis Pierre Jean-Baptiste Moinet (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Renaud Drugman (Carnieres, Belgium), Arnaud Vincent Pierre Yves Joly (Cambridge, Great Britain), Syed Ammar Abbas (Cambridge, Great Britain), Panagiota Karanasou (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Constanze Stypula (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech-processing system receives input data representing text. A p...