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Jennifer Thom-Santelli

Karl Humphreys

Henriette Cramer

Henrik Lindström

Sarah Mennicken

Rohit Kumar

Kurt Jacobson

Robert L Williams

Daniel Bromand

Richard Mitic

Horia Jurcut

Sravana Reddy

Henriette Susanne Martine Cramer

Bryan Roy

Neha Kothari

Philip Glenny Edmonds

Matthew Joseph Kane

Ruth Brillman

Bo Williams

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

A system for generating and distributing a digital mixtape. In one example, the system can receive a user command to generate a digital mixtape including a user-defined compilation of music. The user command identifies a recipient of the digital mixtape and identifies one or more media content items to be included in the music compilation for the recipient. The digital mixtape can also include audio recordings from the user to be added to the digital mixtape.

Generation and distribution of a digital mixtape

Methods, systems, and related products that provide enhanced personalized media content experiences. Past media content consumption is inferred based on requests for media content selection associated with a time or period of time in the past. The requests are fulfilled by selecting one or more media content items from the inferred media content consumption.

Systems and methods for delivering relevant media content by inferring past media content consumption

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Jennifer Thom-Santelli