System and method to use text-to-speech to prompt whether text-to-speech output should be added during installation of a program on a computer system normally controlled through a user interactive display
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- using a text-to-speech engine to generate an initial auditory prompt asking whether a user would like to use additional auditory prompts or displayed prompts during installation of an application program on a computer;
receiving at least one input from a user in response to the initial auditory prompt; and
conducting the installation using either the auditory prompts or displayed prompts in accordance with the at least one input.
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Abstract
An auditory user interactive interface to an application program being installed in the computer controlled system. A routine in an object, in an application program being installed in the computer controlled system for providing an auditory user interface to the program in combination with auditory means for offering the user of the computer controlled system the auditory user interface during installation of said application program, and responsive to the selection of the auditory interface provides the auditory user interface during said installation of the application program. The functional object in the application program being installed includes the routine for providing the auditory interface preferably implemented in Text to Speech (TTS) functions together with an implementation for determining whether the computer controlled system receiving the application program includes a TTS engine compatible with the TTS functions in the application program and a routine for installing a TTS engine compatible with the routine when the computer controlled system does not include the TTS engine.
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25 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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using a text-to-speech engine to generate an initial auditory prompt asking whether a user would like to use additional auditory prompts or displayed prompts during installation of an application program on a computer; receiving at least one input from a user in response to the initial auditory prompt; and conducting the installation using either the auditory prompts or displayed prompts in accordance with the at least one input. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when executed, perform a method comprising:
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using a text-to-speech engine to generate an initial auditory prompt asking whether a user would like to use additional auditory prompts or displayed prompts during installation of an application program on a computer; receiving at least one input from a user in response to the initial auditory prompt; and conducting the installation using either the auditory prompts or displayed prompts in accordance with the at least one input. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer system comprising at least one processor programmed to:
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use a text-to-speech engine to generate an initial auditory prompt asking whether a user would like to use additional auditory prompts or displayed prompts during installation of an application program on the computer system; receive at least one input from a user in response to the initial auditory prompt; and conduct the installation using either the auditory prompts or displayed prompts in accordance with the at least one input. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25)
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