ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,560, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for selecting a voice to use during a communication with a user" was invented by Matthew John Lawrenson (Bussigny, Switzerland) and Julian Charles Nolan (Pully, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device having the capability to dynamically select a voice that will be used by a speech synthesizer in creating synthesized speech for use in communicating with a user of the computing device is provided. For example, in some embodiments, the computing device: i) employs the speech synthesizer to have a first...