ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,759, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SOUNDHOUND AI IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for voice unidentifiable morphing" was invented by Ziming Yin (Toronto) and Zili Li (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for a machine learned audio morpher that is trained such that the voice characteristics of a user spoken phrase are replaced with those of a target speaker, which removes and/or reduces the user identifiable information for the spoken phrase. Training can be performed by a user and a target speaker speaking the same or similar phrases and training the audio morpher to min...