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User interface controller for text-to-speech synthesizer

  • US 5,850,629 A
  • Filed: 09/09/1996
  • Issued: 12/15/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A text-to-speech synthesizer for translating a plurality of discontiguous user-selected portions of text in an independent target application into an audio output that sounds like human speech, comprising:

  • a transport control bar;

    a region store button contained on said transport control bar which when activated initiates a copy of a user-selected portion of text into one of a plurality of numerically indexed storage buffers such that said each of said plurality of numerically indexed storage buffers contains one of said plurality of discontiguous user-selected portions of text; and

    a text-to-speech engine which when activated sequentially translates the discontiguous user-selected portions of text stored in said indexed storage buffers into an audio output that sounds like human speech.

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