US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 2 for "Parallel tacotron non-autoregressive and controllable TTS" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,780, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Parallel tacotron non-autoregressive and controllable TTS" was invented by Isaac Elias (Mountain View, Calif.), Jonathan Shen (Mountain View, Calif.), Yu Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Ye Jia (Mountain View, Calif.), Ron J. Weiss (New York), Yonghui Wu (Fremont, Calif.) and Byungha Chun (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a non-autoregressive TTS model includes receiving training data that includes a reference audio signal and a corresponding input text sequence. The method also includes encoding the reference audio signal into a variat...