MessageLoud, Inc. has sued Apple (6:25-cv-00185) in the Western District of Texas and Samsung (2:25-cv-00486) in the Eastern District of Texas, each over five patents described by the plaintiff as generally related to “delivering and reading out loud text messages, emails, and/or messages from a messenger application to a user without any user input”. Infringement allegations target the provision of a wide array of products—including automotive software (i.e., Android Auto and CarPlay), earbuds and headphones, smart watches, smartphones, and tablets—that “support or enable features that read notifications aloud without user input”.