TEXT-TO-SPEECH USER INTERFACE CONTROL
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1. A method comprising:
- detecting a starting point for text-to-speech conversion of computer readable text associated with a device;
detecting a movement of a pointing device in a direction of text flow on a user interface region of the device to start the text-to-speech conversion; and
controlling a rate of the text-to-speech conversion based on a rate of the movement of the pointing device.
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Abstract
A system and method includes a detecting computer readable text associated with a device, detecting a starting point for a text-to-speech conversion of text, beginning the text-to-speech conversion upon detection of movement of a pointing device in a direction of text flow, and controlling a rate of the text-to-speech conversion based on a rate of movement of the pointing device in relation to the text to be converted.
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19 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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detecting a starting point for text-to-speech conversion of computer readable text associated with a device; detecting a movement of a pointing device in a direction of text flow on a user interface region of the device to start the text-to-speech conversion; and controlling a rate of the text-to-speech conversion based on a rate of the movement of the pointing device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus comprising:
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a command input module; a text storage module configured to store computer readable text; a control unit configured to associate location coordinates of the computer readable text with the command input module; a text-to-speech converter configured to convert text that is designated by the command input module; wherein the control unit is further configured to; determine a starting location for a text-to-speech conversion process; provide text to be converted to the text-to-speech converter when the text-to-speech conversion process commences; and provide a rate of the text-to-speech conversion process to the text-to-speech converter based upon a rate of movement of a pointing device on the command input module. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A user interface comprising:
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a device configured to detect a selection of computer readable text for text-to-speech conversion; and a processing device configured to; detect a starting point for the text-to-speech conversion of the selected text; begin the text-to-speech conversion when movement of a pointing device is detected in a direction of text flow on the display; control a rate of the text-to-speech conversion, wherein the rate of text-to-speech conversion corresponds to a detected rate of movement of the pointing device in relation to the direction of the text flow; and output a result of the text-to-speech conversion. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer program product comprising:
a computer useable medium stored in a memory having computer readable code means embodied therein for causing a computer to convert text-to-speech, the computer readable code means in the computer program product comprising; computer readable program code means for causing a computer to detect a starting point for text-to-speech conversion of computer readable text; computer readable program code means for causing a computer to detect a movement of a pointing device in a direction of text flow to start the text-to-speech conversion; and computer readable program code means for causing a computer to control a rate of the text-to-speech conversion based on a rate of the movement of the pointing device. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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