ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,876, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Generating genre appropriate voices for audio books" was invented by Ramya Rasipuram (Los Gatos, Calif.), William Beckman (San Rafael, Calif.), Ladan Golipour (Saratoga, Calif.), David A. Winarsky (San Jose, Calif.), Cheng-Chieh Yeh (Santa Clara, Canada) and Weicheng Zhang (Santa Clara, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for generating audio books from text are provided. An example process includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory: receiving a text including at least a first subset and a second subset, wher...