US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 18 for "Generation of interactive audio tracks from visual content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,252, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generation of interactive audio tracks from visual content" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Victor Carbune (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating audio tracks is provided. The system selects a digital component object having a visual output format. The system determines to convert the digital component object into an audio output format. The system generates text for the digital component object. The system selects, based on context of the digital component object, a digital voice to render the text. The ...