Apple has been granted a patent for “Personalized Voices for Text Messaging” in its Messages app.
About the patent
The patent relates generally to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to personalized voices for text messaging. In the patent, Apple says that intelligent automated assistants (or digital assistants) can provide a beneficial interface between human users and electronic devices.
Such assistants can allow users to interact with devices or systems using natural language in spoken and/or text forms. For example, a user can provide a speech input containing a user request to a digital assistant operating on an electronic device. The digital assistant can interpret the user’s intent from the speech input and operationalize the user’s intent into tasks. The tasks can then be performed by executing one or more services of the electronic device, and a relevant output responsive to the user request can be returned to the user.
Apple also notes that text communication between users of electronic devices has become an integral part of society, especially in the context of social media and instant messaging communications. However, the company adds that conventional systems don’t include personalization of message playback, such as personalized audio playback of received messages.
These systems are also lacking with respect to user customization as to how messages are played back among various message senders. What’s more, traditional systems are not equipped to produce personalized voices for text messages based on a small amount of audio input. Apple wants to offer “improved systems for personalized voices.”
Summary of the patent
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent: “Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example, a plurality of speech inputs is received from a first user. A voice model is obtained based on the plurality of speech inputs. A user input is received from the first user, the user input corresponding to a request to provide access to the voice model. The voice model is provided to a second electronic device.”
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