Patents by Inventor Andrew Stephen Aaron

Andrew Stephen Aaron 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).

  • Autonomous system and method for creating readable scripts for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) corpora
    Patent number: 8155963
    Abstract: A method (and system) which autonomously generates a cohesive script from a text database for creating a speech corpus for concatenative text-to-speech, and more particularly, which generates cohesive scripts having fluency and natural prosody that can be used to generate compact text-to-speech recordings that cover a plurality of phonetic events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Stephen Aaron, David Angelo Ferrucci, John Ferdinand Pitrelli