Spotify Ab

Oath Inc.

Henriette Cramer

Jennifer Thom-Santelli

Henrik Lindström

Sravana Reddy

Karl Humphreys

Sarah Mennicken

Daniel Bromand

Richard Mitic

Kurt Jacobson

Rohit Kumar

Robert L Williams

Horia Jurcut

Aaron Springer

David Ayman Shamma

Philip Glenny Edmonds

Matthew Joseph Kane

Ruth Brillman

Neha Kothari

Bryan Roy

Bo Williams

Mohamed Kafsi

Morteza Behrooz

A text-to-speech engine creates audio output that includes synthesized speech and one or more media content item snippets. The input text is obtained and partitioned into text sets. A track having lyrics that match a part of one of the text sets is identified. The location of the track's audio that contains the lyric is extracted based on forced alignment data. The extracted audio is combined with synthesized speech corresponding to the remainder of the input text to form audio output.

Text-to-speech from media content item snippets

A media content steering solution is provided to identify a user query to steer playback of media content that is currently playing or has been played. The user steering query can include a voice request for playing media content that is relatively different from the media content being currently played or having been played. The media content steering solution analyzes the utterance of the user query and uses it to identify such different content that satisfies the user intent contained in the user query.

Media content steering

A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.

Voice recognition system for use with a personal media streaming appliance

Apparatus, systems and methods for augmenting a group of media content items by forming a graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, where each node represents a segue option at a position in the graph and each edge represents a connection between a first node in the graph at a first position and a second node in the graph at a second position and finding a path in the graph.

Apparatus, systems and methods for providing segues to contextualize media content

Methods, systems, and related products that provide detection of media content items that are under-locatable by machine voice-driven retrieval of uttered requests for retrieval of the media items. For a given media item, a resolvability value and/or an utterance resolve frequency is calculated by a number of playbacks of the media item by a speech retrieval modality to a total number of playbacks of the media item regardless of retrieval modality. In some examples, the methods, systems and related products also provide for improvement in the locatability of an under-locatable media item by collecting and/or generating one or more pronunciation aliases for the under-locatable item.

System and method for assessing and correcting potential underserved content in natural language understanding applications

Geographical regions are each characterized using a distribution of terms, tags, etc. A model may be generated that identifies characteristics of each geographic region. The geographic regions may be organized using a geographical hierarchical model.

Method and system of generating and using a geographical hierarchy model

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Henriette Cramer