Patents by Inventor John A. Goldsmith

John A. Goldsmith 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).

  • Method and apparatus for learning the morphology of a natural language
    Patent number: 6405161
    Abstract: A method and system (200) provide automatic and unsupervised morphological analysis of a corpus of a natural language. An optimal division of each word in the corpus is determined (104) and identified stems and suffixes are combined as signatures (106). Major patterns of stem allomorphy are identified (110) and a morphological analysis is produced (112) for subsequent processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Arch Development Corporation
    Inventor: John A. Goldsmith
  • Prosodic databases holding fundamental frequency templates for use in speech synthesis
    Patent number: 5905972
    Abstract: Prosodic databases hold fundamental frequency templates for use in a speech synthesis system. Prosodic database templates may hold fundamental frequency values for syllables in a given sentence. These fundamental frequency values may be applied in synthesizing a sentence of speech. The templates are indexed by tonal pattern markings. A predicted tonal marking pattern is generated for each sentence of text that is to be synthesized, and this predicted pattern of tonal markings is used to locate a best-matching template. The templates are derived by calculating fundamental frequencies on a pursuable basis for sentences that are spoken by a human trainer for a given unlabeled corpus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xuedong D. Huang, James L. Adcock, John A. Goldsmith