ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,686, issued on May 12, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cross-lingual voice cloning for low-resource languages" was invented by Dading Chong (Hangzhou, China), Dongyang Dai (Hangzhou, China), Xiao Song (Hangzhou, China), Chao Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Sheng Yuan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for cross-lingual voice cloning for low-resource languages are provided. In an example method, a computing device receives a first speech sample, the first speech sample characterized by a first voice and spoken in a first language and a text input in a second language. The computing devic...