Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Aaron Cardwell

Jeremy Lee Dewey

Martin D Hall

David Ruzyski

Kedar Hirve

Jason Kepner

Evelyn R Thomas

Joshua R McCammon

Stephen E Giscombe

Heather Grantham Brodie

Luca Beltrami

Travis St Onge

Matthew Labunka

Examples described herein provide various devices that enable users to participate in a session. The examples allow a user that is unable to hear, or that is incapable of hearing, to participate in an in-session voice chat by receiving text messages that have been converted from speech to text (e.g., transcribed messages). The user enables a speech-to-text conversion feature on his or her own device. Based on the enabled feature, a notification can be sent to other devices participating in the session. Based on the notification, the other devices are tasked with capturing utterances and sending corresponding speech data to a speech-to-text conversion device so that voice communications can be converted to text messages. Subsequent to conversion, the text messages can be displayed in a chat interface presented as part of the displayed content for the session.

Session speech-to-text conversion

Growing community of inventors

Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Aaron Cardwell