US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 20 for "Controlling expressivity in end-to-end speech synthesis systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,609, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Controlling expressivity in end-to-end speech synthesis systems" was invented by Daisy Stanton (Mountain View, Calif.), Eric Dean Battenberg (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Russell John Wyatt Skerry-Ryan (Mountain View, Calif.), Soroosh Mariooryad (Redwood City, Calif.), David Teh-hwa Kao (San Francisco), Thomas Edward Bagby (San Francisco) and Sean Matthew Shannon (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating an output audio signal includes a context encoder, a text-prediction network, and a text-to-speech (TTS) model. The context encod...