ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,247, issued on May 13.
"Voice-based social network" was invented by Pramod Kumar Verma (Calabasas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention presents a novel voice-based social network, where users can compose, explore, and share voice posts. Each voice post is composed of audio, text with dictation or transcription from speech, and other optional elements such as picture, video, contact, etc. During the composition step, the user speaks to the microphone, and the system generates text using the text-to-speech method. Users optionally attach a picture or video and category. Each voice post is visualized as a text on the to...