Patents by Inventor Mario De Bock

Mario De Bock 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).

  • Corpus-based speech synthesis based on segment recombination
    Patent number: 7567896
    Abstract: A system and method generate synthesized speech through concatenation of speech segments that are derived from a large prosodically-rich corpus of speech segments including using an additional dictionary of speech segment identifier sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Geert Coorman, Vincent Pollet, Stefaan Van Gerven, Mario De Bock, Bert Van Coile, Jan De Moortel
  • 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 speech synthesis based on segment recombination
    Publication number: 20050182629
    Abstract: A system and method generate synthesized speech through concatenation of speech segments that are derived from a large prosodically-rich corpus of speech segments including using an additional dictionary of speech segment identifier sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Geert Coorman, Vincent Pollet, Stefaan Van Gerven, Mario De Bock, Bert Van Coile, Jan De Moortel
  • 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