Patents by Inventor Shenghao Qin

Shenghao Qin 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).

  • Techniques to create a custom voice font
    Patent number: 8332225
    Abstract: Techniques to create and share custom voice fonts are described. An apparatus may include a preprocessing component to receive voice audio data and a corresponding text script from a client and to process the voice audio data to produce prosody labels and a rich script. The apparatus may further include a verification component to automatically verify the voice audio data and the text script. The apparatus may further include a training component to train a custom voice font from the verified voice audio data and rich script and to generate custom voice font data usable by the TTS component. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Zhao, Zhi Li, Shenghao Qin, Chiwei Che, Jingyang Xu, Binggong Ding
  • TECHNIQUES TO CREATE A CUSTOM VOICE FONT
    Publication number: 20100312563
    Abstract: Techniques to create and share custom voice fonts are described. An apparatus may include a preprocessing component to receive voice audio data and a corresponding text script from a client and to process the voice audio data to produce prosody labels and a rich script. The apparatus may further include a verification component to automatically verify the voice audio data and the text script. The apparatus may further include a training component to train a custom voice font from the verified voice audio data and rich script and to generate custom voice font data usable by the TTS component. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng Zhao, Zhi Li, Shenghao Qin, Chiwei Che, Jingyang Xu, Binggong Ding