Patents by Inventor Silvia Quazza

Silvia Quazza has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Text-to-speech method and system, computer program product therefor
    Patent number: 8321224
    Abstract: A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module configured for mapping at least part of the phonemes of the second language onto sets of phonemes of the first language; and a speech-synthesis module adapted to be fed with a resulting stream of phonemes including the sets of phonemes of the first language resulting from mapping and the stream of phonemes of the first language representative of the text, and to generate a speech signal from the resulting stream of phonemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Loquendo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Leonardo Badino, Claudia Barolo, Silvia Quazza
  • TEXT-TO-SPEECH METHOD AND SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20120109630
    Abstract: A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module configured for mapping at least part of the phonemes of the second language onto sets of phonemes of the first language; and a speech-synthesis module adapted to be fed with a resulting stream of phonemes including the sets of phonemes of the first language resulting from mapping and the stream of phonemes of the first language representative of the text, and to generate a speech signal from the resulting stream of phonemes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Loquendo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Leonardo Badino, Claudia Barolo, Silvia Quazza
  • Text-to-speech method and system, computer program product therefor
    Patent number: 8121841
    Abstract: A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module configured for mapping at least part of the phonemes of the second language onto sets of phonemes of the first language; and a speech-synthesis module adapted to be fed with a resulting stream of phonemes including the sets of phonemes of the first language resulting from mapping and the stream of phonemes of the first language representative of the text, and to generate a speech signal from the resulting stream of phonemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Loquendo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Leonardo Badino, Claudia Barolo, Silvia Quazza
  • Text-to-speech method and system, computer program product therefor
    Publication number: 20070118377
    Abstract: A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module configured for mapping at least part of the phonemes of the second language onto sets of phonemes of the first language; and a speech-synthesis module adapted to be fed with a resulting stream of phonemes including the sets of phonemes of the first language resulting from mapping and the stream of phonemes of the first language representative of the text, and to generate a speech signal from the resulting stream of phonemes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Leonardo Badino, Claudia Barolo, Silvia Quazza