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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2019
Dolby International Ab, Amsterdam Zuidoost, NL;
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Toni Hirvonen, Helsinki, FI;
Daniel Arteaga, Barcelona, ES;
Eduard Aylon Pla, Barcelona, ES;
Alex Cabrer Manning, Barcelona, ES;
Lie Lu, Dublin, CA (US);
Karl Jonas Roeden, Solna, SE;
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dolby International AB, Amsterdam Zuidoost, NL;
Abstract
Described herein is a method for creating object-based audio content from a text input for use in audio books and/or audio play, the method including the steps of: a) receiving the text input; b) performing a semantic analysis of the received text input; c) synthesizing speech and effects based on one or more results of the semantic analysis to generate one or more audio objects; d) generating metadata for the one or more audio objects; and e) creating the object-based audio content including the one or more audio objects and the metadata. Described herein are further a computer-based system including one or more processors configured to perform said method and a computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium with instructions adapted to carry out said method when executed by a device having processing capability.