US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 18 for "Using token level context to generate SSML tags" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,243, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using token level context to generate SSML tags" was invented by Mikayel Mirzoyan (San Francisco), Andre Aing (Dublin), Aysar Khalid (Redmond, Wash.), Chad Joseph Lynch (Lansdale, Pa.), Graham Michael Reeve (Redmond, Wash.), Sadek Baroudi (Berkeley, Calif.) and Vidush Vishwanath (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a system that analyzes a corpus of text (e.g., a financial article, an audio book, etc.) so that the context surrounding the text is fully understood. For instance, the context may be an en...