Steve Pearson
19Patents
12h-index
27Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 19, 1988 → Jan 11, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5850629A | User interface controller for text-to-speech synthesizer | Physics | 329 | Expired |
| US5924068A | Electronic news reception apparatus that selectively retains sections and searches by keyword or index for text to speech conversion | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 300 | Expired |
| US5400434A | Voice source for synthetic speech system | Physics | 255 | Expired |
| US6144939A | Formant-based speech synthesizer employing demi-syllable concatenation with independent cross fade in the filter parameter and source domains | Physics | 186 | Expired |
| US6513008B2 | Method and tool for customization of speech synthesizer databases using hierarchical generalized speech templates | Physics | 164 | Expired |
| US5024657A | Drug delivery apparatus and method preventing local and systemic toxicity | Human Necessities | 128 | Expired |
| US6195632A | Extracting formant-based source-filter data for coding and synthesis employing cost function and inverse filtering | Physics | 99 | Expired |
| US4874366A | Housing enabling passive mixing of a beneficial agent with a diluent | Human Necessities | 67 | Expired |
| US6363342B1 | System for developing word-pronunciation pairs | Physics | 60 | Expired |
| US7908019B2 | Taxonomy engine and dataset for operating an appliance | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 47 | Active |
| US5495754A | Environmental wind tunnel | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US6202049A | Identification of unit overlap regions for concatenative speech synthesis system | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US6496801B1 | Speech synthesis employing concatenated prosodic and acoustic templates for phrases of multiple words | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| USRE39336E1 | Formant-based speech synthesizer employing demi-syllable concatenation with independent cross fade in the filter parameter and source domains | General | 4 | Expired |
| US7472843B2 | Air induction liquid spray nozzle assembly | Performing Operations; Transporting | 2 | Expired |
| US11600284B2 | Voice morphing apparatus having adjustable parameters | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US11100940B2 | Training a voice morphing apparatus | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US10008216B2 | Method and apparatus for exemplary morphing computer system background | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US9905218B2 | Method and apparatus for exemplary diphone synthesizer | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.