 "Patent Office rejects Google's application for invention related to voice-to-text technology")
The Indian Patent Office has refused to grant a patent to Google for its invention of providing text messages using voice command. The internet giant offers voice-to-text message in Google Voice which can transcribe voicemail into text, among others.
The application was filed in 2006 by Motorola Mobility LLC, now changed to Google Technology Holdings LLC for method and apparatus of providing text messages.
The patent office describes the method particularly useful for providing text messages using voice inputs processed on a portable electronic device with limited memory and computational capacity.
According to one aspect of the invention, there is
