ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,138, issued on July 7, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Speech synthesis method and apparatus, electronic device, and readable storage medium" was invented by Dongyang Dai (Beijing), Yuanzhe Chen (Beijing), Li Chen (Beijing), Yuping Wang (Beijing), Qiao Tian (Beijing), Ming Tu (Los Angeles), Rui Xia (Los Angeles) and Yuxuan Wang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an audio synthesis method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium. In the present solution, conversion from a text to an audio having a target timbre is achieved by means of a pre-trained voice synthe...