ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,562, issued on March 24, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Animated speech refinement using machine learning" was invented by Guy Adam (Tel Aviv, Israel), Jackie Assa (Herzliya, Israel) and Alan Bekker (Givaat Shmuel, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for providing animated speech refinement. The systems and methods perform operations comprising: receiving an audio stream comprising one or more spoken words; processing the audio stream by an automated speech recognition (ASR) engine to identify base timing of one or more phonemes corresponding to the one or more spoken words; app...