Patent №
US 11,699,360
Granted
2023-07-11
Filed 2020
Owner
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Lab
AI components
2
nlp · speech
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
17106901
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods that aid users with hearing and/or speech impediments to have a conversation with a remote phone number without human assistance. In one aspect, an application residing on a user's device, such as a smartphone, tablet computer, laptop, etc., may be used to initiate a phone call to a recipient. Upon initiating the phone call locally, a service residing on the server may receive a request to initiate a connection to the recipient. Once the recipient answers, the user may converse with the recipient by providing text input to their local app. The text input may be transmitted to the service. The service may use a text to speech converter to translate the received text to speech that can be delivered to the recipient.
AI classification
Ownership
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
assignment · 545450749
Assignors
KOUL, ANIRUDH, KASAM, MEHER, JOHNSTON, MICHAEL, MACHANAVAJHALA, SWETHA, HALPER, ELIZABETH
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.