PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15997602
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["704", "260000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for performing multi-style speech synthesis. The techniques include using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: obtaining input comprising text and an identification of a desired speaking style to use in rendering the text as speech; identifying a plurality of speech segments for use in rendering the text as speech, the identifying comprising identifying a first speech segment recorded and/or synthesized in a first speaking style that is different from the desired speaking style based at least in part on a measure of similarity between the desired speaking style and the first speaking style; synthesizing speech from the text in the desired speaking style at least in part by using the first speech segment; and outputting the synthesized speech.

Claim (Index 3):
The speech synthesis method of  claim 2 , wherein the identifying the first speech segment is based at least in part on how well prosodic characteristics of the first speech segment match prosodic characteristics associated with the desired speaking style.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13333
- Patent Class: 704.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15392923', '14499444', '11838609', '15308731', '10083839']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2846820809065536
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6055948997434463
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3167733627902429
- Mean Citation Score: 354.432924
- Max Citation Score: 508.0045
- Similarity Product: 504.2948461865783

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test