US Patent Issued to Cerence Operating on Sept. 8 for "Emotional detection and processing for barge-in speech" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,586, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cerence Operating Co. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Emotional detection and processing for barge-in speech" was invented by Raymond Brueckner (Ulm, Germany), Daniel Mario Kindermann (Aachen, Germany) and Markus Funk (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing an interaction between a user and a driver interaction system in a vehicle, the method comprising presenting a first audio output to a user from an output device of the driver interaction system, and, while presenting the first audio output to the user, receiving sensed input at the driver interaction system, processing the ...