US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 22 for "Systems and methods for a text-to-speech interface" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,858, issued on July 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for a text-to-speech interface" was invented by Benedict Davies (London), Guillaume Boniface (London), Jack Whyte (London), Jakub Adamek (St. Albans, Great Britain), Simon Tokumine (London), Alessio Macri (London) and Matthias Quasthoff (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system and related techniques for selecting content to be automatically converted to speech and provided as an audio signal are provided. A text-to-speech request associated with a first document can be received that includes data associated with a playbac...