ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,079, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Artificial intelligence-based audio signal generation method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Zewang Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Qiao Tian (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial intelligence (AI)-based audio signal generation method includes: converting a text into a corresponding phoneme sequence; encoding the phoneme sequence to obtain a contextual representation of the phoneme sequence; determining, based on a first frame hidden state corresponding to a phoneme in the phoneme sequence, an alignme...