Patents by Inventor Anurag Ratan Singh

Anurag Ratan Singh 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).

  • Process for improving pronunciation of proper nouns foreign to a target language text-to-speech system
    Patent number: 9852728
    Abstract: A system and method configured for use in a text-to-speech (TTS) system is provided. Embodiments may include identifying, using one or more processors, a word or phrase as a named entity and identifying a language of origin associated with the named entity. Embodiments may further include transliterating the named entity to a script associated with the language of origin. If the TTS system is operating in the language of origin, embodiments may include passing the transliterated script to the TTS system. If the TTS system is not operating in the language of origin, embodiments may include generating a phoneme sequence in the language of origin using a grapheme to phoneme (G2P) converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Anurag Ratan Singh, Yifang Xu, Ivan A. Sanchez Quijas, Mahesh Godavarti
  • PROCESS FOR IMPROVING PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NOUNS FOREIGN TO A TARGET LANGUAGE TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160358596
    Abstract: A system and method configured for use in a text-to-speech (TTS) system is provided. Embodiments may include identifying, using one or more processors, a word or phrase as a named entity and identifying a language of origin associated with the named entity. Embodiments may further include transliterating the named entity to a script associated with the language of origin. If the TTS system is operating in the language of origin, embodiments may include passing the transliterated script to the TTS system. If the TTS system is not operating in the language of origin, embodiments may include generating a phoneme sequence in the language of origin using a grapheme to phoneme (G2P) converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Anurag Ratan Singh, Yifang Xu, Ivan A. Sanchez Quijas, Mahesh Godavarti