US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Enhanced spoken dialogue modification" (Washington, Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,573, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Enhanced spoken dialogue modification" was invented by Abhishek Yanamandra (Seattle), Sarah Elizabeth Norred (Seattle), Hector Josue Santos Villalobos (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Rohith Mysore Vijaya Kumar (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modifying recorded audio of a video title may include: identifying a video title available for presentation; identifying a portion of audio data, of the video title, representing dialogue of an actor of the video title; identifying a first utterance of the dialogue to be replaced in the video title; ...