ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,864, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOPPAN HOLDINGS INC. (Tokyo).

"Content generation device, content generation method, and program" was invented by Ping Zhang (Taito-ku, Japan) and Shiori Tada (Taito-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content generation device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires text data representing a first text, being a reading target; a voice generation unit that, using a voice generation model that based on a voice in which a user has read out a second text, being a learning target, has learned a way of reading out the second text in a voice of the user, generates a synthesized voice in w...