US Patent Issued to ELECTRONIC ARTS on May 13 for "Speech prosody prediction in video games" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,265, issued on May 13, was assigned to ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Speech prosody prediction in video games" was invented by Kilol Gupta (Redwood City, Calif.), Zahra Shakeri (Newark, Calif.), Gordon Durity (Surrey, Canada), Mohsen Sardari (Burlingame, Calif.), Harold Chaput (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Navid Aghdaie (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification describes a computer-implemented method of generating context-dependent speech audio in a video game. The method comprises obtaining contextual information relating to a state of the video game. The contextual information is inputted int...