US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Audio playback and captioning" (New York, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,157, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Audio playback and captioning" was invented by Tiberiu Suto (Franklin, N.Y.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Sushain Pandit (Austin, Texas) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a structure, and a computer system for playback optimization. The exemplary embodiments may include transcribing an audio stream at normal and at high playback speed, as well as determining whether portions of the audio stream are unintelligible at the high playback speed. The exemplary embodiments may further include re...