ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,217, issued on March 31, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).
"System and method for speech processing" was invented by Zeenat Qureshi (London), Felix Vaughan (London) and John Flynn (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a speech synthesis model adapted to output speech in response to input text is provided. The method includes receiving training data for training said speech synthesis model, the training data comprising speech that corresponds to known text. The method includes training said speech synthesis model. The method includes testing said speech synthesis model using a plurality of text sequences....