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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Evelyn R. Thomas, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jason Kepner, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
David Ruzyski, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jeremy L. Dewey, Duvall, WA (US);
Martin Hall, Sammamish, WA (US);
Joshua R. McCammon, Redmond, WA (US);
Kedar Hirve, Kent, WA (US);
Stephen E. Giscombe, Seattle, WA (US);
Travis St. Onge, Redmond, WA (US);
Aaron Cardwell, Kirkland, WA (US);
Matthew Labunka, Bellevue, WA (US);
Luca Beltrami, Redmond, WA (US);
Heather Grantham Brodie, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
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.