Samsung Files Patent for Earbuds That Pick Out Speech in Wind and Noise
Wind howling across your earbuds is one of the hardest things for them to handle. Samsung's patent application describes a way to…
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Voice & speech AI patents
Machines that listen and talk back: transcription, translation, synthetic voices, and the systems that clean up how we sound.
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Google Files Patent for a Training Fix to Help Voice Software Catch Wake Words and Speaker Changes
Voice software learns from hours of ordinary talk, so the rare moments that matter most, like a wake phrase, barely register during…
Google Files Patent for an AI That Writes Differently to Your Boss Than to Your Friends
Ask an AI to answer your boss and your best friend, and today you often get the same stiff, generic voice for…
OpenAI Patents On-Screen Cues That Show When Its AI Voice Mode Is Listening
Talking to an AI is awkward when the screen gives no sign it heard you. OpenAI's patent application covers on-screen cues for…
Amazon Files Patent for Software That Ranks the Topics Callers Feel Strongly About
Amazon's filing describes software that listens for the moments a caller sounds happiest or angriest, then works out what they were talking…
A New Microsoft Patent Trains Speech Recognition on Voices Scrubbed of Identity
Microsoft's patent tries to teach speech software to understand people without letting it learn whose voice it is hearing. It blanks out…
OpenAI Patents a Voice Assistant That Forgets the Part You Talked Over
When you cut off a voice assistant mid-answer, it usually keeps acting as if you heard every word. An OpenAI patent application…
Salesforce Patents a Fake Caller to Test AI Phone Assistants Before Real Customers Do
Salesforce's patent application describes an AI caller that plays impatient, accented, or noisy-café customers to put voice bots through their paces before…
OpenAI Files Patent for Voice AI That Knows When You've Finished Your Thought
Ever had a voice assistant cut you off the moment you paused to think? OpenAI's patent application describes a way for its…
Samsung Files Patent for a Voice Assistant That Fact-Checks Its Answers Against Your Apps
Ask a voice assistant for the weather and it can show you one city while describing another. Samsung's patent application splits the…
Google Files Patent for Training Speech Recognition With Blanked-Out Slices of Sound
Google's training trick for speech recognition is surprisingly simple: cover random strips of a sound's picture and make the software guess the…
OpenAI Wins a Patent for Voice Chat That Starts Thinking Before You Stop Talking
Everyone has been cut off by a voice assistant or left waiting in awkward silence. OpenAI now holds a patent on a…
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