Intelligent Text-to-Speech Conversion
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for converting text to speech, comprising:
- selecting a document to be converted to speech;
parsing the selected document;
converting text in the selected document to speech; and
creating an audio file based on the converted text.
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Abstract
Techniques for improved text-to-speech processing are disclosed. The improved text-to-speech processing can convert text from an electronic document into an audio output that includes speech associated with the text as well as audio contextual cues. One aspect provides audio contextual cues to the listener when outputting speech (spoken text) pertaining to a document. The audio contextual cues can be based on an analysis of a document prior to a text-to-speech conversion. Another aspect can produce an audio summary for a file. The audio summary for a document can thereafter be presented to a user so that the user can hear a summary of the document without having to process the document to produce its spoken text via text-to-speech conversion.
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33 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for converting text to speech, comprising:
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selecting a document to be converted to speech; parsing the selected document; converting text in the selected document to speech; and creating an audio file based on the converted text. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer-implemented method for converting text to speech, comprising:
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identifying text elements in a document; determining which of the identified text elements will be spoken; determining an order in which the identified text elements will be spoken; determining at least one audio cue that will accompany the at least one of the spoken text elements; and associating the at least one determined audio cue with the at least one of the spoken text elements corresponding thereto. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer implemented method for generating an audio summary for a document comprising:
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parsing a document; generating an audio summary for the parsed document; and associating the audio summary to the parsed document. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method for presenting a text-based document in an audio fashion, comprising:
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providing a text document having at plurality of embedded text-to-speech markup tags; and converting the text document to an audio file using text-to-speech conversion and using the embedded text-to-speech tags. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A text-to-speech conversion system, comprising:
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a text document having at plurality of embedded text-to-speech markup tags; and a text-to-speech converter configured to convert the text document to an audio file in accordance with the embedded text-to-speech tags. - View Dependent Claims (31)
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32. A computer readable storage medium including at least computer program code for converting text to speech tangibly embodied therein, comprising:
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computer program code for selecting a document to be converted to speech; computer program code for parsing the selected document; computer program code for converting text in the selected document to speech; and computer program code for creating an audio file based on the converted text, wherein the audio file includes at least one audio cue. - View Dependent Claims (33)
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