Patents by Inventor Massimo Giustiniani

Massimo Giustiniani 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).

  • Phonetic Hidden Markov model speech synthesizer
    Patent number: 5230037
    Abstract: A method and a system for synthesizing speech from unrestricted text, based on the principle of associating a written string of text with a sequence of speech features vectors that most probably model the corresponding speech utterance. The synthesizer is based on the interaction between two different Ergodic Hidden Markov Models: an acoustic model reflecting the constraints on the acoustic arrangement of speech, and a phonetic model interfacing phonemic transcription to the speech features representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Massimo Giustiniani, Piero Pierucci