Patents by Inventor Qin Shi

Qin Shi 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 for generating pesonalized speech from text
    Publication number: 20020173962
    Abstract: A method for generating personalized speech from text includes the steps of analyzing the input text to get standard parameters of the speech to be synthesized from a standard text-to-speech database; mapping the standard speech parameters to the personalized speech parameters via a personalization model obtained in a training process; and synthesizing speech of the input text based on the personalized speech parameters. The method can be used to simulate the speech of the target person so as to make the speech produced by a TTS system more attractive and personalized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald T. Tang, Ligin Shen, Qin Shi, Wei Zhang
  • Method and system for automatically extracting new word
    Publication number: 20020077816
    Abstract: A method of and system for automatically extracting new words are provided. The method and system are highly efficient for automatically extracting new words from a mass amount of cleaned corpus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Liqin Shen, Qin Shi, Haixin Chai