VOICE OUTPUT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPOKEN TEXT GENERATION
First Claim
1. A voice output device having a first memory unit with capacity to store a plurality of audio files, a computation unit configured to associate one or more of the audio files being stored in the first memory unit in a correct order with one or more data records to be audibly output, and an output unit having an audio data output interface configured to reproduce the audio files in the order prescribed by the computation unit, wherein the audio files comprise fixed audio files comprising predetermined sentence components, and variable audio files for selectively supplementing the predetermined sentence components in order to produce modularly complete sentences.
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Abstract
Embodiments are described for a voice output device having a first memory unit configured to store a plurality of audio files, a computation unit configured to associate one or more of the audio files stored in the first memory unit with one or more outputtable data records in the correct order, and an output unit having an audio data output interface for reproducing the audio files in the order prescribed by the computation unit, where the audio files comprise fixed audio files, which contain predetermined sentence components, and variable audio files, which are used to selectively supplement the fixed audio files in order to produce modularly complete sentences.
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19 Claims
- 1. A voice output device having a first memory unit with capacity to store a plurality of audio files, a computation unit configured to associate one or more of the audio files being stored in the first memory unit in a correct order with one or more data records to be audibly output, and an output unit having an audio data output interface configured to reproduce the audio files in the order prescribed by the computation unit, wherein the audio files comprise fixed audio files comprising predetermined sentence components, and variable audio files for selectively supplementing the predetermined sentence components in order to produce modularly complete sentences.
- 3. A voice output device having a first memory unit with capacity to store a plurality of audio files, a computation unit configured to associate one or more of the audio files being stored in the first memory unit in a correct order with one or more data records to be audibly output, and an output unit having an audio data output interface configured to reproduce the audio files in the order prescribed by the computation unit, wherein the audio files comprise variable audio files which can be selectively combined in modular fashion in order to produce numerical words.
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10. A method for spoken text generation for a voice output device, comprising the steps of:
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generating a plurality of audio files, the audio files comprising a plurality of fixed audio files each comprising a predetermined sentence component, the audio files furthering comprising a plurality of variable audio files each comprising one of a word and a sentence fragment selectively combinable in modular fashion with at least one of another variable audio file or a fixed audio file; storing the audio files in a first memory unit; associating at least one of the audio files from at least one of the fixed audio files in accordance with at least one data record desired to be audibly output; prescribing a correct order for the audio files associated with the at least one data record; and producing an audible output from the associated audio files. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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