ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,788, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Instantaneous learning in text-to-speech during dialog" was invented by Vijayaditya Peddinti (San Jose, Calif.), Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Mt. Kisco, N.Y.), Andrew Rosenberg (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Mateusz Golebiewski (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for instantaneous learning in text-to-speech (TTS) during dialog includes receiving a user pronunciation of a particular word present in a query spoken by a user. The method also includes receiving a TTS pronunciation of the same particular word that is present in a TTS input where the TTS pr...