US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 3 for "Annotated synthesized speech data" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,400, issued on March 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Annotated synthesized speech data" was invented by Kayeon Yoo (London), Yang Li (Bishop's Stortford, Great Britain), Aanusha Ghosh (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Ewa Magdalena Muszynska (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for evaluating speech synthesis components are described. A system presents speech synthesis audio along with the underlying content (such as text) and allows a user to indicate where an error (such as a pause error) appears in the synthesized speech, along with a category and severity of the error. The syste...