US Patent Issued to INCENTMED IP on May 5 for "Synthesizing personalized speech through adaptive excitation signal generation" (Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,386, issued on May 5, was assigned to INCENTMED IP LLC (Traverse City, Mich.).

"Synthesizing personalized speech through adaptive excitation signal generation" was invented by John Woodruff (Traverse City, Mich.), James E. Kemler (Glen Arbor, Mich.), Gina Vess (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Sam Altonji (Salem, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech synthesis system is described and may include at least one microphone; a speaker; a sensing system, and memory storing processor-executable instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: detect speech-related signals emanating from the subject; generate a variable...