Method and voice communicator to provide a voice communication
First Claim
1. A method of providing a voice communication, the method comprising:
- at a voice communicator, identifying text to be communicated by selecting relevant text for communication in an audible form;
automatically processing the text to generate an audio equivalent of the relevant text, wherein the processing is by a multi-context application having voice and text functionalities;
enabling a user selection of an intended recipient of the audio equivalent of the relevant text by requesting a telephone number of the intended recipient from the user using the voice communicator, the requesting comprising;
monitoring a selection by the user of a contact list available on the voice communicator, the contact list including recipient names and their associated telephone numbers,monitoring a selection of at least one recipient name from the recipient names, andidentifying the telephone number of the at least one recipient name from the selection;
establishing a telephone connection with a recipient device using the telephone number of the at least one recipient name; and
communicating the audio equivalent as a telephone communication to the recipient device of the intended recipient, the recipient device being a voice mailbox.
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Abstract
A method and voice communicator to provide a voice communication is described. The method may include identifying text to be communicated and automatically processing the text to generate an audio equivalent of the text. For example, the text may be scraped from a web page. The method may include identifying an intended recipient of the audio equivalent and thereafter communicating the audio equivalent as a telephone communication (e.g., a voice mail message in a voice mailbox). Thus, identifying the intended recipient may include requesting a telephone number of a sender (caller) of the voice communication. In an embodiment, the method comprises monitoring selection by a user of a contact list available on the voice communicator wherein the contact list includes a plurality of recipient names and their associated telephone numbers. The audio equivalent is communicated to the recipient device over, for example, PSTN or VoIP network.
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24 Claims
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1. A method of providing a voice communication, the method comprising:
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at a voice communicator, identifying text to be communicated by selecting relevant text for communication in an audible form; automatically processing the text to generate an audio equivalent of the relevant text, wherein the processing is by a multi-context application having voice and text functionalities; enabling a user selection of an intended recipient of the audio equivalent of the relevant text by requesting a telephone number of the intended recipient from the user using the voice communicator, the requesting comprising; monitoring a selection by the user of a contact list available on the voice communicator, the contact list including recipient names and their associated telephone numbers, monitoring a selection of at least one recipient name from the recipient names, and identifying the telephone number of the at least one recipient name from the selection; establishing a telephone connection with a recipient device using the telephone number of the at least one recipient name; and communicating the audio equivalent as a telephone communication to the recipient device of the intended recipient, the recipient device being a voice mailbox. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A non-transitory tangible medium capable of storing a set of instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:
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identify text to be communicated at a voice communicator by selecting relevant text for communication in an audible form; automatically process the relevant text to generate an audio equivalent of the relevant text, wherein the processing is by a multi-context application having voice and text functionalities; enable a user selection of an intended recipient of the audio equivalent by requesting a telephone number of the intended recipient from the user using the voice communicator, the requesting comprising; monitoring a selection by the user of a contact list available on the voice communicator, the contact list including recipient names and their associated telephone numbers, monitoring a selection of at least one recipient name from the recipient names, and identifying the telephone number of the at least one recipient name from the selection; establish a telephone connection with a recipient device using the telephone number of the at least one recipient name; and communicate the audio equivalent as a telephone communication to the recipient device, the recipient device being a voice mailbox of the intended recipient.
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17. A voice communicator comprising:
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an application interface configured to identify text to be communicated by selecting relevant text for communication in an audible form; a processing module configured to automatically process the text to generate an audio equivalent of the relevant text, wherein the processing is by a multi-context application having voice and text functionalities; the application interface further configured to enable a user selection of an intended recipient of the audio equivalent of the relevant text by requesting a telephone number of the intended recipient from the user using the voice communicator the requesting compromising; monitoring a selection by the user of a contact list available on the voice communicator, the contact list including recipient names and their associated telephone numbers, monitoring a selection of at least one recipient name from the recipient names, and identifying the telephone number of the at least one recipient name from the selection; and an interface module configured to establish a telephone connection with a recipient device using the telephone number of the at least one recipient name, and to communicate the audio equivalent as a telephone communication to the recipient device of the intended recipient, the recipient device being a voice mailbox. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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