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Sony patents system that picks a voice for text based on its topic

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Sony describes a system that reads text to determine its main subject and then selects a specific voice profile from a library. It uses that chosen voice to generate audio, ensuring the spoken output matches the content's theme.

Why it mattersThis could make automated text-to-speech sound more natural by matching the speaker's tone to the subject matter, such as using a calm voice for news or an energetic one for sports.

In the filing’s own words

An information processing apparatus includes: a speaker search unit that performs a search based on a topic of text data among a plurality of pieces of speaker data to select speaker data; and a voice synthesis unit that generates synthesized voice data of the text data with the speaker data selected by the speaker search unit.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a speaker search unit that performs a search based on a topic of text data among a plurality of pieces of speaker data to select speaker data; and a voice synthesis unit that generates synthesized voice data of the text data with the speaker data selected by the speaker search unit.

Facts

Company: Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
Official title: INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM
Publication number: US20260321241A1
Application number: 19485292
Filed: May 22, 2024
Published: Oct 15, 2026
Inventors: 1
Claims: 16

Classified under

G10L 13/033 Physics & computingG10L 13/047 Physics & computingG10L 13/08 Physics & computing

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