Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for mixing synthetic voice with original audio tracks
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Application No.: US16747314Application Date: 2020-01-20
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Publication No.: US11430485B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Yadong Wang , Murthy Parthasarathi , Andrew Swan , Raja Ranjan Senapati , Shilpa Jois Rao , Anjali Chablani , Kyle Tacke
- Applicant: Netflix, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Los Gatos
- Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Los Gatos
- Agency: FisherBroyles, LLP
- Main IPC: G11B27/00
- IPC: G11B27/00 ; H04N5/93 ; G11B27/036 ; G11B27/034 ; H04N21/84 ; G10L13/08 ; H04N21/485 ; H04N21/81 ; G10L13/00 ; H04N9/80

Abstract:
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing an audio track that is associated with a video recording, identifying a section of the accessed audio track having a specific audio characteristic, reducing a volume level of the audio track in the identified section, accessing an audio segment that includes a synthesized voice and inserting the accessed audio segment into the identified section of the audio track, where the inserted segment has a higher volume level than the reduced volume level of the audio track in the identified section. The synthesized voice description can be used to provide additional information to a visually impaired viewer without interrupting the audio track that is associated with the video recording, typically by inserting the synthesized voice description into a segment of the audio track in which there is no dialog. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210151082A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MIXING SYNTHETIC VOICE WITH ORIGINAL AUDIO TRACKS Public/Granted day:2021-05-20
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