US Patent Issued to Google on April 21 for "Emotive text-to-speech with auto detection of emotions" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,106, issued on April 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Emotive text-to-speech with auto detection of emotions" was invented by Arindrima Datta (New York) and Rakesh Narayan Iyer (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing emotive text-to-speech includes obtaining input text characterizing a natural language response generated by an assistant LLM to a query input by a user during a conversation between the user and the assistant LLM, and processing, using the assistant LLM, the input text conditioned on an emotion detection task prompt to predict, as output from the assistant LLM...