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Text-to-speech converter

  • US 6,546,366 B1
  • Filed: 02/26/1999
  • Issued: 04/08/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A text-to-speech converter comprising:

  • a text-to-speech engine receiving source text and converting said source text into speech data;

    a read mechanism reading speech data from said text-to-speech engine and writing said speech data to a buffer; and

    a throttle mechanism reading speech data from said buffer and conveying said speech data to a playback operation, said throttle mechanism triggering said read mechanism to read data from said text-to-speech engine and write said speech data to said buffer so that unread speech data in said buffer remains ahead of speech data read by said throttle mechanism by at least a threshold amount, said buffer being unavailable to said throttle mechanism during writing of speech data to said buffer.

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