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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jose A. G. de Freitas, Eastleigh, GB;

Guy P. Hindle, Romsey, GB;

James S. Taylor, Southampton, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 13/027 (2013.01); G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G10L 13/04 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 13/027 (2013.01); G10L 13/043 (2013.01); G10L 13/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and computer-implemented method for synthesizing multi-person speech into an aggregate voice is disclosed. The method may include crowd-sourcing a data message configured to include a textual passage. The method may include collecting, from a plurality of speakers, a set of vocal data for the textual passage. Additionally, the method may also include mapping a source voice profile to a subset of the set of vocal data to synthesize the aggregate voice.


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