Microsoft has applied for a patent on an AI system that would rewrite what a speaker says in a live video feed, and redraw their lips to match, with the changes tailored to each viewer's profile. The filing, published Oct. 29, is an application, not a product, and the company has announced no plans to build it.
The application, US 2026/0341309 A1, is titled "Near Real-Time Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enhancement of Video or Augmented Reality (AR) Presentations of Live Events," according to IBTimes. Microsoft Technology Licensing filed it April 29, 2025, and lists David Callaghan and Dinesh Kumar as inventors.
Per the patent tracker Patentlyze, the first claim describes an AI agent that picks "one or more spoken words to modify according to a first set of parameters," with the choice "based on a profile of a user." A generative AI system then swaps the words in the audio, smooths the edit and generates new video frames so the speaker's mouth matches the new words.
Which words change depends on who is watching. Tbreak reports the profile could hold a viewer's age, languages, region, religion, ethnicity, education, and voice or video samples. Two people watching the same broadcast could hear two different versions of what was said, as READ MORE AT SOURCE »
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