MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641018724 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Feb. 19, for 'system and method for phonetic reconstruction of extinct languages from historical language data.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Ganesh Shamrao Khekare; Nilaksh Kashyap; Chandan S; Utkarsh Venkatesan; and Dr. Goutam Majumder.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure proposes a system (100) for phonetic reconstruction of extinct languages from historical language data. The system (100) comprises a processor (104) executing plurality of modules (110). Written artefact inputs are processed by a written text extraction module (114) using embedded text extraction or optical character recognition, followed by normalization by a text normalization module (116) to compensate for degradation and orthographic variability. Spoken audio inputs are transcribed by a speech recognition module (118). A text selection and routing module (120) selects phonetic source text, which is converted into structured phonetic representations by a phonetic representation generation module (124). Multiple pronunciation hypotheses are evaluated by a hypothesis and uncertainty management module (126), and reconstructed audible speech is generated by a speech synthesis module (128) without reliance on native speaker recordings."
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