ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,475, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Streaming speech synthesis method and system for supporting real-time conversation model" was invented by Young Han Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Choong Sang Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Tae Woo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Je Woo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a streaming speech synthesis method and system for supporting a real-time conversation model. A real-time speech synthesis method according to an embodiment outputs a sentence for responding to an utterance of ...