Patents by Inventor Guillaume Boniface

Guillaume Boniface has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240127792
    Abstract: An audio playback system that provides intuitive audio playback of textual content responsive to user input actions, such as scrolling portions of textual content on a display. Playback of audio (e.g., text-to-speech audio) that includes textual content can begin based on a portion of textual content being positioned by a user input at a certain position on a device display. As one example, a user can simply scroll through a webpage or other content item to cause a text-to-speech system to perform audio playback of textual content displayed in one or more playback section(s) of the device's viewport (e.g., rather than requiring the user to perform additional tapping or gesturing to specifically select a certain portion of textual content).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Rachel Ilan Simpson, Benedict Davies, Guillaume Boniface-Chang
  • Patent number: 11887581
    Abstract: An audio playback system that provides intuitive audio playback of textual content responsive to user input actions, such as scrolling portions of textual content on a display. Playback of audio (e.g., text-to-speech audio) that includes textual content can begin based on a portion of textual content being positioned by a user input at a certain position on a device display. As one example, a user can simply scroll through a webpage or other content item to cause a text-to-speech system to perform audio playback of textual content displayed in one or more playback section(s) of the device's viewport (e.g., rather than requiring the user to perform additional tapping or gesturing to specifically select a certain portion of textual content).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Ilan Simpson, Benedict Davies, Guillaume Boniface-Chang
  • Publication number: 20230094174
    Abstract: An audio playback system that provides intuitive audio playback of textual content responsive to user input actions, such as scrolling portions of textual content on a display. Playback of audio (e.g., text-to-speech audio) that includes textual content can begin based on a portion of textual content being positioned by a user input at a certain position on a device display. As one example, a user can simply scroll through a webpage or other content item to cause a text-to-speech system to perform audio playback of textual content displayed in one or more playback section(s) of the device's viewport (e.g., rather than requiring the user to perform additional tapping or gesturing to specifically select a certain portion of textual content).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Rachel Ilan Simpson, Benedict Davies, Guillaume Boniface-Chang
  • Publication number: 20220013104
    Abstract: A computing system and related techniques for selecting content to be automatically converted to speech and provided as an audio signal are provided. A text-to-speech request associated with a first document can be received that includes data associated with a playback position of a selector associated with a text-to-speech interface overlaid on the first document. First content associated with the first document can be determined based at least in part on the playback position, the first content including content that is displayed in the user interface at the playback position. The first document can be analyzed to identify one or more structural features associated with the first content. Speech data can be generated based on the first content and the one or more structural features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Benedict Davies, Guillaume Boniface-Chang, Jack Whyte, Jakub Adamek, Simon Tokumine, Alessio Macri, Matthias Quasthoff
  • Patent number: 11145288
    Abstract: A computing system and related techniques for selecting content to be automatically converted to speech and provided as an audio signal are provided. A text-to-speech request associated with a first document can be received that includes data associated with a playback position of a selector associated with a text-to-speech interface overlaid on the first document. First content associated with the first document can be determined based at least in part on the playback position, the first content including content that is displayed in the user interface at the playback position. The first document can be analyzed to identify one or more structural features associated with the first content. Speech data can be generated based on the first content and the one or more structural features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benedict Davies, Guillaume Boniface, Jack Whyte, Jakub Adamek, Simon Tokumine, Alessio Macri, Matthias Quasthoff
  • Publication number: 20200035218
    Abstract: A computing system and related techniques for selecting content to be automatically converted to speech and provided as an audio signal are provided. A text-to-speech request associated with a first document can be received that includes data associated with a playback position of a selector associated with a text-to-speech interface overlaid on the first document. First content associated with the first document can be determined based at least in part on the playback position, the first content including content that is displayed in the user interface at the playback position. The first document can be analyzed to identify one or more structural features associated with the first content. Speech data can be generated based on the first content and the one or more structural features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Benedict Davies, Guillaume Boniface, Jack Whyte, Jakub Adamek, Simon Tokumine, Alessio Macri, Matthias Quasthoff