Patents by Inventor Varun Nambikrishnan

Varun Nambikrishnan 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).

  • Automatically generating speech markup language tags for text
    Patent number: 11380300
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, an apparatus comprises a non-transitory computer-readable storage media and a processor coupled to the media executes instructions to: access a plurality of text, generate, using one or more natural language understanding (NLU) models, one or more scores for at least a portion of the plurality of text. The apparatus determines, based on the scores, one or more prosodic values corresponding to the portion of the plurality of text. The apparatus determines, based on the one or more prosodic values, one or more speech synthesis markup language (SSML) tags. The apparatus then generates, based on the prosodic values, SSML-tagged data comprising each determined SSML tag and that tag's location in the plurality of text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Vinod Cherian Joseph, Varun Nambikrishnan
  • AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING SPEECH MARKUP LANGUAGE TAGS FOR TEXT
    Publication number: 20210110811
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, an apparatus comprises a non-transitory computer-readable storage media and a processor coupled to the media executes instructions to: access a plurality of text, generate, using one or more natural language understanding (NLU) models, one or more scores for at least a portion of the plurality of text. The apparatus determines, based on the scores, one or more prosodic values corresponding to the portion of the plurality of text. The apparatus determines, based on the one or more prosodic values, one or more speech synthesis markup language (SSML) tags. The apparatus then generates, based on the prosodic values, SSML-tagged data comprising each determined SSML tag and that tag's location in the plurality of text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Vinod Cherian Joseph, Varun Nambikrishnan