METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMBINING NEWS AND MUSIC

• US 20070261534A1
• Filed: 04/26/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cellular Records
• Original Assignee: Cellular Records
• Inventors: ALLEN, Ashley P.
• Application Number:
  US11/740,836
• Publication Number:
  US 20070261534A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/603
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/365 the accompaniment information being stored on a host computer and transmitted to a reproducing terminal by means of a network, e.g. public telephone lines
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/368 displaying animated or moving pictures synchronized with the music or audio part
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/031 Musical analysis, i.e. isolation, extraction or identification of musical elements or musical parameters from a raw acoustic signal or from an encoded audio signal neural networks for electrophonic musical instruments or musical processing G10H2250/311
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/151 using templates, i.e. incomplete musical sections, as a basis for composing
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/091 Info, i.e. juxtaposition of unrelated auxiliary information or commercial messages with or between music files metadata G10H2240/075
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/131 Library retrieval, i.e. searching a database or selecting a specific musical piece, segment, pattern, rule or parameter set
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2021/105 Synthesis of the lips movements from speech, e.g. for talking heads

Abstract

A method and system for packaging news and information with music to create a new form of information sharing. A digital file comprising audio information is created. A digital spoken word audio component and a plurality of musical components are provided. The sound properties of the digital spoken word audio component and each of the plurality of musical component are analyzed to select a musical component that sonically fits with the digital spoken word audio component. Further analysis is performed regarding when a portion of the digital spoken word audio component sonically fits with a portion of the selected musical component. The digital spoken word audio component and the selected musical component in the digital file is then synchronized.

Claims

1. A method for creating a digital file comprising audio information, comprising the steps of:

providing a digital spoken word audio component;

providing a plurality of musical components;

analyzing sound properties of said digital spoken word audio component and each of said plurality of musical component to select a selected musical component that sonically fits with said digital spoken word audio component;

further analyzing when a portion of said digital spoken word audio component sonically fits with a portion of said selected musical component; and

synchronizing said digital spoken word audio component and said selected musical component in said digital file.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

said digital spoken word audio component has at least one item of spoken word metadata;

and

each of said musical components has at least one item of music metadata;

said method further comprising the step of comparing said spoken word metadata with said music metadata for each of said plurality of musical components, to select, as the selected musical component, the musical component having the music metadata with the closest correspondence with said spoken word metadata.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said spoken word metadata identifies the target audience of the digital spoken word audio component, and each of said items of music metadata identifies at least one appropriate target audience of the musical component.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said comparing step uses a template to select said selected musical component.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said digital file further comprises video information.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein said video information comprises an audio component, and said audio component is used in said method as said digital spoken word audio component.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of selecting one or more of said plurality of music components to substantially match the running time of said digital spoken word audio component.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of processing requests for content from a client system.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of routing said digital file along a computer network.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of authenticating the identity of a client system and billing a client for the purchase of said digital file.

11. A system for creating a digital file, comprising a computer containing software to perform the method of claim 1.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein

said digital spoken word audio component has at least one item of spoken word metadata;

and

each of said musical components has at least one item of music metadata;

said method further comprising the step of comparing said spoken word metadata with said music metadata for each of said plurality of musical components, to select, as the selected musical component, the musical component having the music metadata with the closest correspondence with said spoken word metadata.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein said spoken word metadata identifies the target audience of the digital spoken word audio component, and each of said items of music metadata identifies at least one appropriate target audience of the musical component.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein said comparing step uses a template to select said selected musical component.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein said digital file further comprises video information.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein said video information comprises an audio component, and said audio component is used in said method as said digital spoken word audio component.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein said method of claim 1 further comprises the step of selecting one or more of said plurality of music components to substantially match the running time of said digital spoken word audio component.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein said method of claim 1 further comprises the step of processing requests for content from a client system.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein said method of claim 1 further comprises the step of routing said digital file along a computer network.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein said method of claim 1 further comprises the steps of authenticating the identity of a client system and billing a client for the purchase of said digital file.

24. A computer readable medium comprising a digital file created using the method of claim 1.

25. A computer readable medium comprising software for performing the method of claim 1.

21. A computer system for creating a digital file, comprising

a means for providing a digital spoken word audio component;

a means for providing a plurality of musical components;

a means for analyzing sound properties of said digital spoken word audio component and each of said plurality of musical component to select a selected musical component that sonically fits with said digital spoken word audio component;

a means for further analyzing when a portion of said digital spoken word audio component sonically fits with a portion of said selected musical component; and

a means for synchronizing said digital spoken word audio component and said selected musical component in said digital file.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein

said digital spoken word audio component has at least one item of spoken word metadata;

and

each of said musical components has at least one item of music metadata;

said method further comprising the step of comparing said spoken word metadata with said music metadata for each of said plurality of musical components, to select, as the selected musical component, the musical component having the music metadata with the closest correspondence with said spoken word metadata.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein said spoken word metadata identifies the target audience of the digital spoken word audio component, and each of said items of music metadata identifies at least one appropriate target audience of the musical component.