US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 10 for "On-device personalization of speech synthesis for training of speech recognition model(s)" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,549, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"On-device personalization of speech synthesis for training of speech recognition model(s)" was invented by Francoise Beaufays (Mountain View, Calif.), Johan Schalkwyk (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Khe Chai Sim (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processor(s) of a client device can: identify a textual segment stored locally at the client device; process the textual segment, using an on-device TTS generator model, to generate synthesized speech audio data that includes synthesized speech of the textual segment; process the synthesized speech, using an on-de...