Patents by Inventor Justin Fackrell

Justin Fackrell 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).

  • Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms
    Patent number: 7219060
    Abstract: A high quality speech synthesizer in various embodiments concatenates speech waveforms referenced by a large speech database. Speech quality is further improved by speech unit selection and concatenation smoothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Geert Coorman, Filip Deprez, Mario De Bock, Justin Fackrell, Steven Leys, Peter Rutten, Jan De Moortel, Andre Schenk, Bert Van Coile
  • Corpus-based prosody translation system
    Patent number: 7069216
    Abstract: A method of prosody translation is given. A target input symbol sequence is provided, including a first set of speech prosody descriptors. An instance-based learning algorithm is applied to a corpus of speech unit descriptors to select an output symbol sequence representative of the target input symbol sequence and including a second set of speech prosody descriptors. The second set differs from the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan DeMoortel, Justin Fackrell, Peter Rutten, Bert Van Coile
  • Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms
    Publication number: 20040111266
    Abstract: A high quality speech synthesizer in various embodiments concatenates speech waveforms referenced by a large speech database. Speech quality is further improved by speech unit selection and concatenation smoothing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Geert Coorman, Filip Deprez, Mario De Bock, Justin Fackrell, Steven Leys, Peter Rutten, Jan DeMoortel, Andre Schenk, Bert Van Coile
  • Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms
    Patent number: 6665641
    Abstract: A high quality speech synthesizer in various embodiments concatenates speech waveforms referenced by a large speech database. Speech quality is further improved by speech unit selection and concatenation smoothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: ScanSoft, Inc.
    Inventors: Geert Coorman, Filip Deprez, Mario De Bock, Justin Fackrell, Steven Leys, Peter Rutten, Jan DeMoortel, Andre Schenk, Bert Van Coile
  • Corpus-based prosody translation system
    Publication number: 20020152073
    Abstract: A method of prosody translation is given. A target input symbol sequence is provided, including a first set of speech prosody descriptors. An instance-based learning algorithm is applied to a corpus of speech unit descriptors to select an output symbol sequence representative of the target input symbol sequence and including a second set of speech prosody descriptors. The second set differs from the first set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Jan DeMoortel, Justin Fackrell, Peter Rutten, Bert Van Coile