US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Speech translation with performance characteristics" (Polish, British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,148, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Speech translation with performance characteristics" was invented by Duo Wang (Cambridge, Great Britain), Vincent Laurent J. Pollet (Astene, Belgium), Mikolaj Wojciech Babianski (Gdansk, Poland) and Jakub Bartlomiej Swiatkowski (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expressive speech translation system may process source speech in a source language and output synthesized speech in a target language while retaining vocal performance characteristics such as intonation, emphasis, rhythm, style, and/or emotion. The system may receive a transcript of t...