US Patent Issued to Spotify on Oct. 7 for "Text-to-speech from media content item snippets" (American, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,744, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Text-to-speech from media content item snippets" was invented by Rohit Kumar (Austin, Texas), Henrik Lindstrom (Stockholm), Henriette Cramer (San Francisco), Sarah Mennicken (San Francisco), Sravana Reddy (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jennifer Thom-Santelli (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A text-to-speech engine creates audio output that includes synthesized speech and one or more media content item snippets. The input text is obtained and partitioned into text sets. A track having lyrics that match a part of one of the text sets is identified. The location of the track's...