US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 30 for "Method and system for user-interface adaptation of text-to-speech synthesis" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,088, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for user-interface adaptation of text-to-speech synthesis" was invented by Ajit Narayanan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is disclosed for adapting speech synthesis according to user-interface input. While synthesizing speech from a text segment with a text-to-speech (TTS) system and concurrently displaying the text segment in a display device, the system may receive tracking operation input tracking a portion of text undergoing synthesis and identifying a context portion of the text for which prior...