# US 10,373,603 B2 · System and method for creating voice profiles for specific demographics

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- Number: US 10,373,603 B2
- Document ID: US10373603B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/494,870
- Filed: 2017-04-24
- Published: 2017-08-10
- Granted: 2019-08-06
- Earliest claimed: 2014-05-02
- Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Inventors: Srinivas Bangalore; Taniya Mishra
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10373603B2

## CPC

- G10L 13/033: Voice editing, e.g. manipulating the voice of the synthesiser
- G10L 13/00: Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
- G10L 13/02: Methods for producing synthetic speech; Speech synthesisers
- G10L 13/047: Architecture of speech synthesisers
- G10L 15/06: Creation of reference templates; Training of speech recognition systems, e.g. adaptation to the characteristics of the speaker's voice (G10L15/14 takes precedence)
- G10L 15/08: Speech classification or search
- G10L 15/1807: {using prosody or stress}
- G10L 17/26: Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices
- G10L 25/48: specially adapted for particular use
- G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING

## Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for receiving an utterance from a user and analyzing the utterance to identify the demographics of the user. The system then analyzes the utterance to determine the prosody of the utterance, and retrieves from the Internet data associated with the determined demographics. Using the retrieved data, the system retrieves, also from the Internet, recorded speech matching the identified prosody. The recorded speech, which is based on the demographic data of the utterance and has a prosody matching the utterance, is then saved to a database for future use in generating speech specific to the user.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method comprising:
retrieving, via a speech processing system and from a remote database, data associated with a demographic of a user that provided an utterance to the speech processing system and recorded speech matching a prosody of the utterance;
saving the data and the recorded speech in a local database; and
generating, by the speech processing system, speech using the data and the recorded speech stored in the local database.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising:
analyzing, via the speech processing system, the utterance to identify the demographic of the user and the prosody of the utterance.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein retrieving the recorded speech and the data associated with the demographic of the user further comprises retrieving the recorded speech from a first database and retrieving the data associated with the demographic of the user from a second database.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the prosody of the utterance comprises an accent, a pitch, a rate, and an energy of the utterance.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the demographic of the user comprises one of an age, a gender, an ethnicity, an education level, and an economic status.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the demographic of the user comprises a geographic location.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the data retrieved from the remote database is retrieved from one of a blog, a social media website, and a book.

### Claim 8

A speech processing system comprising:
a processor; and
a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
retrieving, from a remote database, data associated with a demographic of a user that provided an utterance and recorded speech matching a prosody of the utterance;
saving the data and the recorded speech in a local database; and
generating speech using the data and the recorded speech stored in the local database.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The speech processing system of claim 8, wherein the computer-readable storage medium stores additional instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations further comprising:
analyzing the utterance to identify the demographic of the user and the prosody of the utterance.

### Claim 10 (depends on 8)

The speech processing system of claim 8, wherein retrieving the recorded speech and the data associated with the demographic of the user further comprises retrieving the recorded speech from a first database and retrieving the data associated with the demographic of the user from a second database.

### Claim 11 (depends on 8)

The speech processing system of claim 8, wherein the prosody of the utterance comprises an accent, a pitch, a rate, and an energy of the utterance.

### Claim 12 (depends on 8)

The speech processing system of claim 8, wherein the demographic of the user comprises one of an age, a gender, an ethnicity, an education level, and an economic status.

### Claim 13 (depends on 8)

The speech processing system of claim 8, wherein the demographic of the user comprises a geographic location.

### Claim 14 (depends on 8)

The speech processing system of claim 8, wherein the data is retrieved from one of a blog, a social media website, and a book.

### Claim 15

A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a speech processing system, cause the speech processing system to perform operations comprising:
retrieving, from a remote database, data associated with a demographic of a user that provided an utterance and recorded speech matching a prosody of the utterance;
saving the data and the recorded speech in a local database; and
generating speech using the data and the recorded speech stored in the local database.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The computer-readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the computer-readable storage device stores additional instructions which, when executed by the speech processing system, cause the speech processing system to perform operations further comprising:
analyzing the utterance to identify the demographic of the user and the prosody of the utterance.

### Claim 17 (depends on 15)

The computer-readable storage device of claim 15, wherein retrieving the recorded speech and the data associated with the demographic of the user further comprises retrieving the recorded speech from a first database and retrieving the data associated with the demographic of the user from a second database.

### Claim 18 (depends on 15)

The computer-readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the prosody of the utterance comprises an accent, a pitch, a rate, and an energy of the utterance.

### Claim 19 (depends on 15)

The computer-readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the demographic of the user comprises one of an age, a gender, an ethnicity, an education level, and an economic status.

### Claim 20 (depends on 15)

The computer-readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the demographic of the user comprises a geographic location.