Inventor · Beijing, CN

Min Chu

31Patents
11h-index
33Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: May 7, 2001 → Feb 20, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7496498B2 Front-end architecture for a multi-lingual text-to-speech system Physics 360 Expired
US7496512B2 Refining of segmental boundaries in speech waveforms using contextual-dependent models Physics 333 Expired
US7693719B2 Providing personalized voice font for text-to-speech applications Physics 310 Active
US7689421B2 Voice persona service for embedding text-to-speech features into software programs Physics 297 Active
US7689408B2 Identifying language of origin for words using estimates of normalized appearance frequency Physics 278 Active
US7418389B2 Defining atom units between phone and syllable for TTS systems Physics 225 Active
US6978239B2 Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification Physics 174 Expired
US7127396B2 Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification Physics 172 Expired
US7263488B2 Method and apparatus for identifying prosodic word boundaries Physics 36 Expired
US7328157B1 Domain adaptation for TTS systems Physics 16 Expired
US9859901B1 Buffer with programmable input/output phase relationship Electricity 12 Active
US7844457B2 Unsupervised labeling of sentence level accent Physics 7 Active
US9654121B1 Calibration method and apparatus for phase locked loop circuit Electricity 7 Active
US8368436B1 Programmable frequency synthesizer with I/Q outputs Electricity 6 Active
US11079723B2 Apparatus and methods for automatic time measurements Electricity 6 Active
US7024362B2 Objective measure for estimating mean opinion score of synthesized speech Physics 6 Expired
US8185376B2 Identifying language origin of words Physics 5 Active
US7684987B2 Segmental tonal modeling for tonal languages Physics 4 Active
US10176804B2 Analyzing textual data Physics 4 Active
US9369139B1 Fractional reference-injection PLL Electricity 4 Active
US8335757B2 Extracting patterns from sequential data Physics 3 Active
US8719027B2 Name synthesis Physics 2 Active
US9590637B1 High-speed programmable frequency divider with 50% output duty cycle Electricity 2 Active
US8892420B2 Text segmentation with multiple granularity levels Physics 2 Active
US11152947B2 Feedback control for accurate signal generation Electricity 2 Active

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