US Patent Issued to BEIJING SOGOU TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT on Jan. 27 for "Speech synthesis method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,988, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BEIJING SOGOU TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD (Beijing).

"Speech synthesis method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Peng Fang (Beijing), Kai Liu (Beijing) and Wei Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a speech synthesis method performed by an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring a target text to be synthesized into a speech; generating hidden layer features and prosodic features of the target text, and predicting pronunciation duration of characters in the target text using an acoustic model corresponding to the...