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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jason Kepner, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Evelyn R. Thomas, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Ruzyski, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jeremy L. Dewey, Duvall, WA (US);
Martin Hall, Sammamish, WA (US);
Joshua R. McCammon, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephen E. Giscombe, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas Cooper, Seattle, WA (US);
Dana Ludwig, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Examples described herein provide various devices that enable users to participate in a multiplayer session. The examples allow a user that is unable to speak, or that is incapable of speaking, to participate in an in-session voice chat by inputting text and having the text converted to speech (e.g., synthesized voice data) that can then be sent to other devices participating in the session. The user enables a text-to-speech conversion feature on his or her own device. Based on the enabled feature, functionality enabling text to be entered is activated and the entered text is converted into speech data.