US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on Nov. 3 for "Artificial intelligence based character-specific speech generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,732, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Artificial intelligence based character-specific speech generation" was invented by Alif Khalfan (Redwood City, Calif.) and Malcolm E. Murdock (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code, a character database, a language model and an artificial intelligence (AI) model trained to emulate speech by a character. The software code is executed to receive interaction data including a description of speech by a human to a performer impersonating the character and a description of a facia...