US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Aug. 4 for "Method and apparatus for training encoder" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,399, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for training encoder" was invented by Sung Woong Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for training a speech transformation model are provided. The method and the apparatus are capable of generating a natural speech suitable for context and improving accuracy of pronunciation by training the first encoder (e.g., a encoder of the flow-based model) and the second encoder (e.g., a encoder of the Tacotron 2 model) in parallel."

The patent was filed on April 15...