US Patent Issued to Spotify on May 27 for "Text-to-speech and speech recognition for noisy environments" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,490, issued on May 27, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Text-to-speech and speech recognition for noisy environments" was invented by Daniel Bromand (Boston), Bjorn Erik Roth (Stockholm) and Kare Sjolander (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to speech processing. Humans change their speech patterns in noisy environments. The systems and devices described herein can compensate for noisy environments to be more human-like. Thus, the configurations and implementations herein can determine a sound profile for the sound environment where the user is listening. Based on the sound profi...