Patents by Inventor Andreas Luning

Andreas Luning 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).

  • Microsegment-based speech-synthesis process
    Patent number: 6308156
    Abstract: A digital speech synthesis process in which utterances in a language are recorded, and the recorded utterances are divided into speech segments which are stored so as to allow their allocation to specific phonemes. A text which is to be output as speech is converted to a phoneme chain and the stored segments are output in a sequence defined by the phoneme chain. An analysis of the text to be output as speech is carried out and thus provides information which completes the phoneme chain and modifies the timing sequence signal for the speech segments which are to be strung together for output as speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: G Data Software GmbH
    Inventors: William Barry, Ralf Benzmüller, Andreas Luning