Patents by Inventor Luis Buera Rodriquez

Luis Buera Rodriquez 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).

  • Obfuscated speech synthesis
    Patent number: 9754602
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for synthesizing a speech signal; comprising obtaining a speech sequence input signal comprising semantic content corresponding to a speaker's utterance; analyzing the input speech sequence signal to obtain a first sequence of feature vectors for the input speech sequence signal; synthesizing a second sequence of feature vectors different from and based on the first sequence of feature vectors; generating an excitation signal and filtering the excitation signal based on the second sequence of feature vectors to obtain a synthesized speech signal wherein the semantic content is obfuscated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: AGNITIO SL
    Inventors: Johan Nikolaas Langehoven Brummer, Avery Maxwell Glasser, Luis Buera Rodriquez
  • OBFUSCATED SPEECH SYNTHESIS
    Publication number: 20120239406
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for synthesizing a speech signal; comprising obtaining a speech sequence input signal comprising semantic content corresponding to a speaker's utterance; analyzing the input speech sequence signal to obtain a first sequence of feature vectors for the input speech sequence signal; synthesizing a second sequence of feature vectors different from and based on the first sequence of feature vectors; generating an excitation signal and filtering the excitation signal based on the second sequence of feature vectors to obtain a synthesized speech signal wherein the semantic content is obfuscated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Johan Nikolaas Langehoveen Brummer, Avery Maxwell Glasser, Luis Buera Rodriquez