ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,418, issued on March 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Synchronous audio and text generation" was invented by Laurent Desserrey (Los Angeles) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A messaging system, which hosts a backend service for an associated messaging client, includes a voice chat system that provides voice chat functionality that enables users to dictate their messages, while delivering the resulting message to the intended recipient as both the associated audio and text content. When a user at a sender client device begins dictating a voice message, the voice chat system starts ...