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System and method of providing emotive background sound to text

  • US 6,385,581 B1
  • Filed: 12/10/1999
  • Issued: 05/07/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/05/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus comprising:

  • memory apparatus having stored therein key words and/or key nontextual indicia and emotive sounds, each key word and/or nontextual indicia being associated with one of the emotive sounds; and

    a processor being programmed to detect words and nontextual indicia received thereby and to compare the received words and nontextual indicia to key words and nontextual indicia stored in the memory, the processor being adapted to generate an output signal representing an emotive sound associated with a key word and/or key nontextual indicia if there is a match with a received word and/or nontextual indicia.

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