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Electronic news reception apparatus that selectively retains sections and searches by keyword or index for text to speech conversion

  • US 5,924,068 A
  • Filed: 02/04/1997
  • Issued: 07/13/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/04/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A news receiving apparatus for receiving an electronic edition of a newspaper, the apparatus comprising:

  • receiving means for receiving the electronic edition of the newspaper including text data of news articles;

    section filtering means for retaining or discarding the text data corresponding to specified sections of the electronic edition of the newspaper;

    memory means for storing the text data corresponding to the retained sections of the electronic edition of the newspaper;

    text-to-speech conversion means for converting portions of the stored text data into a spoken representation of words represented by the portions of the stored text data; and

    user interface means including;

    means for establishing which sections of the electronic edition of the newspaper are retained by said section filtering means and for controlling which portions of the electronic edition of the newspaper are provided to said text-to-speech conversion means;

    input means for receiving at least one keyword entered by a user, andsearch means for retrieving the news articles that contain the at least one keyword.

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