US Patent Issued on June 2 for "System and method for identifying sentiment (emotions) in a speech audio input with haptic output" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,527, issued on June 2.

"System and method for identifying sentiment (emotions) in a speech audio input with haptic output" was invented by Shannon Modine Brownlee (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Chloe Jordan Duckworth (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system and method for enabling a user to identify the emotions of speakers to a conversation, spoken audio input is pre-processed using a one-dimensional Mel Spectrogram and/or a two-dimensional Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) matrix, reducing the two-dimensional matrix to a single dimension output, identifying at least one emotion in the audio input using a convolut...