US Patent Issued to Georgetown University on Sept. 22 for "Method and system for a parametric speech synthesis" (District Of Columbia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,030, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Georgetown University (Washington).

"Method and system for a parametric speech synthesis" was invented by Joe Garman (Washington) and Ophir Frieder (Chevy Chase, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques for synthesizing speech in any voice in any language in any accent. For example, in an embodiment, a text-to-speech conversion system may comprise a text converter adapted to convert input text to at least one phoneme selected from a plurality of phonemes stored in memory, a machine-learning model storing voice patterns for a plur...