Audio menus describing media contents of media players

• US 7,831,432 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Issued: 11/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bodin, William K., Thorson, Derral C., Jaramillo, David, Redman, Jerry W.
• Primary Examiner(s): ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH
• Application Number:
  US11/536,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082576A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,502 Days
• Field of Search: 704/260, 704/275, 715/728, 715/729
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for creating an audio menu describing media content of a media player. Embodiments include retrieving metadata describing the media files managed by the media player; converting at least a portion of the metadata to speech; creating one or more media files for the audio menu; and saving the speech in the audio portion of the one or more the media files for the audio menu.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for creating an audio menu describing media content of a media player, the method comprising:

retrieving metadata describing the media files managed by the media player, further comprising;

retrieving an extensible markup language (‘

XML’

) metadata file describing the media files managed by the media player;

identifying in dependence upon the XML metadata file an organization of the media files managed by the media player;

converting at least a portion of the metadata to speech, including converting metadata describing a particular media file managed by media player to speech;

creating one or more media files for the audio menu; and

saving the speech in the audio portion of the one or more media files for the audio menu, further comprising saving the speech according to the organization of the media files managed by the media player.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein retrieving metadata further comprises:

retrieving from each of the media files managed by the media player metadata describing the media file;

identifying in dependence upon a file system in which the media files are stored an organization of the media files managed by the media player; and

wherein saving the speech in the audio portion of the one or more media files for the audio menu further comprises;

saving the speech according to the organization of the media files managed by the media player.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising prepending speech converted from the metadata of a media file managed by the media player to the audio portion of the media file.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising creating an audio file organization menu including:

identifying an organization of the media files managed by the media player;

creating speech describing the organization of the media files managed by the media player; and

creating one or more media files; and

saving the created speech describing the organization of the media files managed by the media player in the one or more media files.

5. A system for creating an audio menu describing media content of a media player, the system comprising:

a computer processor;

a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor;

the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of;

retrieving metadata describing the media files managed by the media player, further comprising;

retrieving an extensible markup language (‘

XML’

) metadata file describing the media files managed by the media player;

identifying in dependence upon the XML metadata file an organization of the media files managed by the media player;

converting at least a portion of the metadata to speech including converting metadata describing a particular media file managed by media player to speech;

creating one or more media files for the audio menu; and

saving the speech in the audio portion of the one or more media files for the audio menu, further comprising saving the speech according to the organization of the media files managed by the media player.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein computer program instructions capable of retrieving metadata further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

retrieving from each of the media files managed by the media player metadata describing the media file;

identifying in dependence upon a file system in which the media files are stored an organization of the media files managed by the media player; and

wherein computer program instructions capable of saving the speech in the audio portion of the one or more media files for the audio menu further comprise computer program instructions capable of;

saving the speech according to the organization of the media files managed by the media player.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the computer memory also has disposed with it computer program instructions capable of prepending speech converted from the metadata of a media file managed by the media player to the audio portion of the media file.

8. The system of claim 5 wherein the computer memory also has disposed with it computer program instructions capable of creating an audio file organization menu including computer program instructions capable of:

identifying an organization of the media files managed by the media player;

creating speech describing the organization of the media files managed by the media player; and

creating one or more media files; and

saving the created speech describing the organization of the media files managed by the media player in the one or more media files.

9. A computer program product for creating an audio menu describing media content of a media player, the computer program product embodied on a computer-readable recording medium, the computer program product comprising:

computer program instructions for retrieving metadata describing the media files managed by the media player, further comprising;

computer program instructions for retrieving an extensible markup language (‘

XML’

) metadata file describing the media files managed by the media player;

computer program instructions for identifying in dependence upon the XML metadata file an organization of the media files managed by the media player,

computer program instructions for converting at least a portion of the metadata to speech, including computer program instructions for converting metadata describing a particular media file managed by media player to speech;

computer program instructions for creating one or more media files for the audio menu; and

computer program instructions for saving the speech in the audio portion of the one or more media files for the audio menu, further comprising computer program instructions for saving the speech according to the organization of the media files managed by the media player.

10. The computer program product of claim 9 wherein computer program instructions for retrieving metadata further comprise:

computer program instructions for retrieving from each of the media files managed by the media player metadata describing the media file;

computer program instructions for identifying in dependence upon a file system in which the media files are stored an organization of the media files managed by the media player, and

wherein computer program instructions for saving the speech in the audio portion of the one or more media files for the audio menu further comprise;

computer program instructions for saving the speech according to the organization of the media files managed by the media player.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 further comprising computer program instructions for prepending speech converted from the metadata of a media file managed by the media player to the audio portion of the media file.

12. The computer program product of claim 9 further comprising computer program instructions for creating an audio file organization menu including:

computer program instructions for identifying an organization of the media files managed by the media player;

computer program instructions for creating speech describing the organization of the media files managed by the media player; and

computer program instructions for creating one or more media files; and

computer program instructions for saving the created speech describing the organization of the media files managed by the media player in the one or more media files.