Google Patents an Assistant That Knows You're Talking to It Without a Wake Word
What if your Google Assistant could tell you were talking to it just by watching your face and listening to how you…
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Google Patents a System That Turns Documents Into Natural-Sounding Audio
Google has filed a patent for a system that reads a pile of documents and generates audio that sounds like a real…
Google Patents On-Device Audio That Strips Out Every Voice Except Yours
Imagine being on a noisy call and having your phone automatically strip away every voice except the person you asked it to…
Google Patents the Math That Teaches AI to Understand Words
This is a patent on word embeddings — the foundational idea that lets AI treat language as math. If you've ever used…
Google Patents an AI Training Method That Protects User Data Without Sacrificing Accuracy
Training a recommendation AI on real user data is a privacy minefield. Google's new patent describes a way to do it with…
Microsoft Patents an AI That Builds Realistic Hand Poses from Fingertip Positions Alone
Getting a virtual hand to grip a coffee mug convincingly is surprisingly hard — most systems either look robotic or require an…
A New Microsoft Patent Lets AI Remember and Learn From Past Chats
Every time you close a chat with an AI, everything it figured out during that conversation disappears. Microsoft's new patent is designed…
Meta Patents an AI That Turns Chaotic Group Chats Into a Browsable Subject Tree
Group chats are famously impossible to follow — one thread about dinner plans somehow merges with a debate about a movie and…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Blend Real Voices Into New Synthetic Ones
Nvidia has filed a patent for a text-to-speech system that doesn't just copy a single speaker's voice — it blends two or…
Nvidia Patents an AI Spell-Check That Consults a Panel of Specialist Editors
Most AI spell-checkers use a single model to fix errors. Nvidia's new patent describes a system that assembles a panel of specialist…
Nvidia Patents a Method to Stop AI Chips From Waiting on Shared Data
When you're training a massive AI model across hundreds of chips, the slowest part is often just moving data around. Nvidia's new…
Nvidia Patents a System for Teaching Robots to Pick Objects Out of a Bin
Getting a robot to reach into a messy bin and pull out the right item — without knocking everything else over —…
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