SWITCHING BETWEEN TEXT DATA AND AUDIO DATA BASED ON A MAPPING

Patent №

US 10,672,399

Granted

2020-06-02

Filed 2011

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13267749

Techniques are provided for creating a mapping that maps locations in audio data (e.g., an audio book) to corresponding locations in text data (e.g., an e-book). Techniques are provided for using a mapping between audio data and text data, whether the mapping is created automatically or manually. A mapping may be used for bookmark switching where a bookmark established in one version of a digital work (e.g., e-book) is used to identify a corresponding location with another version of the digital work (e.g., an audio book). Alternatively, the mapping may be used to play audio that corresponds to text selected by a user. Alternatively, the mapping may be used to automatically highlight text in response to audio that corresponds to the text being played. Alternatively, the mapping may be used to determine where an annotation created in one media context (e.g., audio) will be consumed in another media context.

Natural languageSpeechG10L 15/26G06F 16/685G06F 40/169G10L 13/00G10L 15/19

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
AI hardware0.25
Knowledge representation0.15
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 270280474

Assignors

CANNISTRARO, ALAN C., ROBBIN, GREGORY S., DOUGHERTY, CASEY M., WALSH, RAYMOND, HAJJ, MELISSA BREGLIO

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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