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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2018
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ioannis Agiomyrgiannakis, London, GB;
Fergus James Henderson, Twickenham, GB;
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A device may identify a plurality of sources for outputs that the device is configured to provide. The plurality of sources may include at least one of a particular application in the device, an operating system of the device, a particular area within a display of the device, or a particular graphical user interface object. The device may also assign a set of distinct voices to respective sources of the plurality of sources. The device may also receive a request for speech output. The device may also select a particular source that is associated with the requested speech output. The device may also generate speech having particular voice characteristics of a particular voice assigned to the particular source.