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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Ramya Rasipuram, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William Beckman, San Rafael, CA (US);
Ladan Golipour, Saratoga, CA (US);
David A. Winarsky, San Jose, CA (US);
Cheng-Chieh Yeh, Santa Clara, CA;
Weicheng Zhang, Santa Clara, CA;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and processes for generating audio books from text are provided. An example process includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory: receiving a text including at least a first subset and a second subset, wherein at least a portion of the first subset overlaps with at least a portion of the second subset; determining, based on the text, a prosody for a speech output, wherein the prosody is representative of a genre; determining a semantic meaning of the text; and generating, based on the prosody and the semantic meaning, the speech output of the text.