US Patent Issued to Google on March 3 for "Automated evaluation of synthesized speech using cross-modal and cross-lingual transfer of language encoding" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,433, issued on March 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated evaluation of synthesized speech using cross-modal and cross-lingual transfer of language encoding" was invented by Thibault Sellam (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ankur Bapna (New York), Joshua Camp (London), Diana Mackinnon (London), Ankur P. Parikh (New York) and Jason Riesa (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating synthesized speech, including receiving a speech sample in a first language; and determining a rating of the speech sample based on an encoding of the speech sample by an artificial intelligence encoding model, the rati...