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Audio-form presentation of text messages

  • US 20020191757A1
  • Filed: 06/03/2002
  • Published: 12/19/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. In a communications infrastructure, a message-conversion system for receiving a text-message signal from a sender and converting it into an audio-output signal for delivery to a target recipient;

  • the message-conversion system comprising;

    a store for holding user-related recordings comprising at least one of recordings of user input, and used-supplied recordings;

    a user interface for providing said recordings to the store;

    a message parser for identifying in a received text-message signal, any recording indicators included with the message text;

    a text-to-speech converter for converting the message text into a speech signal;

    a retrieval unit for retrieving from said store user-related recordings indicated by recording indicators, if any, identified by the message parser, any retrieved recording to provide corresponding sound-passage signals; and

    a control arrangement for causing the speech signal and any sound-passage signals to be combined to form said audio-output signal with the arrangement of speech and sound-passage signals being determined by the relative dispositions of text and indicators in the text-message signal.

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