ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,946, issued on July 15.

"Speech interaction method, speech interaction system and storage medium" was invented by Huapeng Sima (Nanjing, China), Zhengkun Mei (Nanjing, China) and Yiping Tang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech interaction method, a speech interaction system and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving interactive speech input by a user; determining an emotional tag corresponding to the interactive speech based on the interactive speech and interactive text corresponding to the interactive speech; determining, based on the emotional tag, a response text corresponding to the interactive text...