Voice site personality setting
First Claim
1. A method of setting the voice personality of voice service sites that operate by serving, from voice page servers, voice pages in the form of text with embedded voice markup tags to a voice browser, the voice browser carrying out text to speech conversion to generate voice output, and the voice browser being disposed between voice page servers and the user;
- wherein a set of voice personality characterisers identified by indications included in a voice page of a previously-visited voice service site and used by the voice browser for presenting voice output of that page, is also used by the voice browser in presenting the voice output of a voice page of a next-visited voice service site.
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Abstract
A method is provided of setting the voice personality of a voice service site. A user browsing a voice web visits a voice site where the voice output of the site is presented using a set of voice personality characterisers with which the user is particularly comfortable. The user, in subsequently transferring to another voice service site, opts to have the voice personality that was embodied in the set of voice personality characterisers used by the site being left, transfer with the user to the new site. This transfer will typically be subject to permissions set by both the site being left and the site about to be visited.
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1. A method of setting the voice personality of voice service sites that operate by serving, from voice page servers, voice pages in the form of text with embedded voice markup tags to a voice browser, the voice browser carrying out text to speech conversion to generate voice output, and the voice browser being disposed between voice page servers and the user;
- wherein a set of voice personality characterisers identified by indications included in a voice page of a previously-visited voice service site and used by the voice browser for presenting voice output of that page, is also used by the voice browser in presenting the voice output of a voice page of a next-visited voice service site.
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6. Voice browser apparatus for handling voice pages comprising text with embedded voice markup tags, said apparatus comprising:
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voice-service access means for accessing voice pages of different voice service sites;
a text-to-speech converter for presenting the output from an accessed voice service site using a voice set by a selected set of voice personality characterisers; and
selection means for selecting the set of voice personality characterisers to be used by the voice-service presentation means to present the currently accessed site, the selection means being operative to enable a set of voice personality characterisers identified by indications included in a voice pane of a most recent previously-accessed voice service site and used by the to-speech converter to present the voice output of that page, to be selected for use in presenting the voice output of a voice page of a currently-accessed voice service site. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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