Inventor
KIBRE NICHOLAS
US14 patents
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MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD
7 patentsUS6792407B2Sep 14, 2004
Text selection and recording by feedback and adaptation for development of personalized text-to-speech systems
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD199 citations97
US6144939ANov 7, 2000
Formant-based speech synthesizer employing demi-syllable concatenation with independent cross fade in the filter parameter and source domains
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD200 citations97
US5878393AMar 2, 1999
High quality concatenative reading system
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD199 citations97
US5966691AOct 12, 1999
Message assembler using pseudo randomly chosen words in finite state slots
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD155 citations94
US6202049B1Mar 13, 2001
Identification of unit overlap regions for concatenative speech synthesis system
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD37 citations92
US6845358B2Jan 18, 2005
Prosody template matching for text-to-speech systems
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD14 citations83
USRE39336EOct 10, 2006
Formant-based speech synthesizer employing demi-syllable concatenation with independent cross fade in the filter parameter and source domains
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD7 citations72
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
6 patentsUS9947317B2Apr 17, 2018
Pronunciation learning through correction logs
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC5 citations71
US9589562B2Mar 7, 2017
Pronunciation learning through correction logs
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC4 citations71
US12061861B2Aug 13, 2024
Custom display post processing in speech recognition
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2 citations68
US12475302B2Nov 18, 2025
Custom display post processing in speech recognition
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations58
US12353839B2Jul 8, 2025
On-device streaming inverse text normalization (ITN)
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations47
US10923105B2Feb 16, 2021
Conversion of text-to-speech pronunciation outputs to hyperarticulated vowels
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations43