US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on March 24 for "Method and apparatus for generating speech outputs in a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,559, issued on March 24, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for generating speech outputs in a vehicle" was invented by Teresa Botschen (Althengstett, Germany) and Stefan Ultes (Walsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating speech outputs in a vehicle in response to a speech input involves recording, in addition to the speech input, additional information by at least one sensor. Afterwards an analysis of the speech input and the sensor data is performed and which is used as a basis for the speech output. At least one imaging sensor is used as the at least one...