ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,081, issued on April 14, was assigned to Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC (Yerevan, Armenia).

"Method and server for a text-to-speech processing" was invented by Dmitry Mikhailovich Chernenkov (Moscow), Vladimir Vladimirovich Kirichenko (Moscow), Ivan Sergeevich Baskov (Krasnodar, Russia) and Sergey Nazimovich Dzhunusov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and servers for processing a textual input for generating an audio output are disclosed. The audio output is a sequence of waveform segments generated in real-time by a trained Convolutional Neural Network. The method includes, at a given iteration, generating a given waveform segme...