US Patent Issued to Sanas.ai on Sept. 29 for "System and method for automatic alignment of phonetic content for real-time accent conversion" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,494, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sanas.ai Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for automatic alignment of phonetic content for real-time accent conversion" was invented by Lukas Pfeifenberger (Salzburg, Austria) and Shawn Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates to methods, accent conversion systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for real-time accent conversion. In some examples, a set of phonetic embedding vectors is obtained for phonetic content representing a source accent and obtained from input audio data. A trained machine learning model is applied to...