Patents by Inventor Nick ROSSENBACH

Nick ROSSENBACH 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 forced duration in neural speech synthesis
    Patent number: 11302300
    Abstract: A system and method enable one to set a target duration of a desired synthesized utterance without removing or adding spoken content. Without changing the spoken text, the voice characteristics may be kept the same or substantially the same. Silence adjustment and interpolation may be used to alter the duration while preserving speech characteristics. Speech may be translated prior to a vocoder step, pursuant to which the translated speech is constrained by the original audio duration, while mimicking the speech characteristics of the original speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Applications Technology (AppTek), LLC
    Inventors: Nick Rossenbach, Mudar Yaghi
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORCED DURATION IN NEURAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS
    Publication number: 20210151028
    Abstract: A system and method enable one to set a target duration of a desired synthesized utterance without removing or adding spoken content. Without changing the spoken text, the voice characteristics may be kept the same or substantially the same. Silence adjustment and interpolation may be used to alter the duration while preserving speech characteristics. Speech may be translated prior to a vocoder step, pursuant to which the translated speech is constrained by the original audio duration, while mimicking the speech characteristics of the original speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Applications Technology (AppTek), LLC
    Inventors: Nick ROSSENBACH, Mudar YAGHI