Patents by Inventor Chiao-Hua Hsieh

Chiao-Hua Hsieh 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).

  • Streaming encoder, prosody information encoding device, prosody-analyzing device, and device and method for speech synthesizing
    Patent number: 9837084
    Abstract: A speech-synthesizing device includes a hierarchical prosodic module, a prosody-analyzing device, and a prosody-synthesizing unit. The hierarchical prosodic module generates at least a first hierarchical prosodic model. The prosody-analyzing device receives a low-level linguistic feature, a high-level linguistic feature and a first prosodic feature, and generates at least a prosodic tag based on the low-level linguistic feature, the high-level linguistic feature, the first prosodic feature and the first hierarchical prosodic model. The prosody-synthesizing unit synthesizes a second prosodic feature based on the hierarchical prosodic module, the low-level linguistic feature and the prosodic tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sin-Horng Chen, Yih-Ru Wang, Chen-Yu Chiang, Chiao-Hua Hsieh
  • STREAMING ENCODER, PROSODY INFORMATION ENCODING DEVICE, PROSODY-ANALYZING DEVICE, AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIZING
    Publication number: 20140222421
    Abstract: A speech-synthesizing device includes a hierarchical prosodic module, a prosody-analyzing device, and a prosody-synthesizing unit. The hierarchical prosodic module generates at least a first hierarchical prosodic model. The prosody-analyzing device receives a low-level linguistic feature, a high-level linguistic feature and a first prosodic feature, and generates at least a prosodic tag based on the low-level linguistic feature, the high-level linguistic feature, the first prosodic feature and the first hierarchical prosodic model. The prosody-synthesizing unit synthesizes a second prosodic feature based on the hierarchical prosodic module, the low-level linguistic feature and the prosodic tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Sin-Horng Chen, Yih-Ru Wang, Chen-Yu Chiang, Chiao-Hua Hsieh