Patents by Inventor Alessio Cervone

Alessio Cervone 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).

  • Speech synthesis with incremental databases of speech waveforms on user terminals over a communications network
    Patent number: 8583437
    Abstract: Service architecture for providing to a user terminal of a communications network textual information and relative speech synthesis, the user terminal being provided with a speech synthesis engine and a basic database of speech waveforms includes: a content server for downloading textual information requested by means of a browser application on the user terminal; a context manager for extracting context information from the textual information requested by the user terminal; a context selector for selecting an incremental database of speech waveforms associated with extracted context information and for downloading the incremental database into the user terminal; a database manager on the user terminal for managing the composition of an enlarged database of speech waveforms for the speech synthesis engine including the basic and the incremental databases of speech waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Alessio Cervone, Ivano Salvatore Collotta, Paolo Coppo, Donato Ettorre, Maurizio Fodrini, Maura Turolla
  • Method and system for providing speech synthesis on user terminals over a communications network
    Publication number: 20090306986
    Abstract: Service architecture for providing to a user terminal of a communications network textual information and relative speech synthesis, the user terminal being provided with a speech synthesis engine and a basic database of speech waveforms includes: a content server for downloading textual information requested by means of a browser application on the user terminal; a context manager for extracting context information from the textual information requested by the user terminal; a context selector for selecting an incremental database of speech waveforms associated with extracted context information and for downloading the incremental database into the user terminal; a database manager on the user terminal for managing the composition of an enlarged database of speech waveforms for the speech synthesis engine including the basic and the incremental databases of speech waveforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Alessio Cervone, Ivano Salvatore Collotta, Paolo Coppo, Donato Ettorre, Maurizio Fodrini, Maura Turolla