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Generating multimedia information from text information using customized dictionaries

  • US 7,386,450 B1
  • Filed: 12/14/1999
  • Issued: 06/10/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/14/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for generating multimedia information, comprising:

  • an interface suitable for receiving an email message;

    a text converter configured to receive the email message and adapted to decompose text in the message into a set of diphthongs;

    a first multimedia dictionary configured to receive diphthongs produced by the text converter and adapted to produce a set of digitized samples of multimedia information representative of the received diphthongs wherein the digitized samples are created by sampling the speech of a first speaker, and a second multimedia dictionary configured to receive diphthongs produced by the text converter and responsive thereto, to retrieve a set of digitized samples created by sampling the speech of a second speaker wherein the set of digitized samples retrieved from the first multimedia dictionary responsive to at least one diphthong differs from the set of digitized samples retrieved from the second multimedia dictionary responsive to the same at least one diphthong, and further wherein the system is configured to select between the first and second multimedia dictionaries responsive to determining an author of the text-based message.

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