ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,489, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Automatic voiceover generation" was invented by Nick Rose (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian Foster Allen (San Francisco), Howard Mullings (Mountain View, Calif.), Ralph Leith (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sheenam Maheshwari (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a voice request to generate synthesized voiceover speech for a target advertisement having one or more advertising campaign attributes. The method also includes generating, based on the one or more advertising campaign attributes, a voiceover script that includes ...