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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ann M. Paradiso, Shoreline, WA (US);
Jonathan Campbell, Redmond, WA (US);
Edward Bryan Cutrell, Seattle, WA (US);
Harish Kulkarni, Redmond, WA (US);
Meredith Morris, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alexander John Fiannaca, Seattle, WA (US);
Kiley Rebecca Sobel, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Generation of expressive content is provided. An expressive synthesized speech system provides improved voice authoring user interfaces by which a user is enabled to efficiently author content for generating expressive output. An expressive synthesized speech system provides an expressive keyboard for enabling input of textual content and for selecting expressive operators, such as emoji objects or punctuation objects for applying predetermined prosody attributes or visual effects to the textual content. A voicesetting editor mode enables the user to author and adjust particular prosody attributes associated with the content for composing carefully-crafted synthetic speech. An active listening mode (ALM) is provided, which when selected, a set of ALM effect options are displayed, wherein each option is associated with a particular sound effect and/or visual effect. The user is enabled to rapidly respond with expressive vocal sound effects or visual effects while listening to others speak.