Contextual conversion platform for generating prioritized replacement text for spoken content output

• US 9,196,251 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2014
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FEI Company (Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: FEI Company (Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated)
• Inventors: Ben-Ezri, Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT
• Application Number:
  US14/552,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20150088503A1
• Time in Patent Office: 364 Days
• Field of Search: 704258-269, 704/270.1, 704/275
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/08 Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A contextual conversion platform, and method for converting text-to-speech, are described that can convert content of a target to spoken content. Embodiments of the contextual conversion platform can identify certain contextual characteristics of the content, from which can be generated a spoken content input. This spoken content input can include tokens, e.g., words and abbreviations, to be converted to the spoken content, as well as substitution tokens that are selected from contextual repositories based on the context identified by the contextual conversion platform.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at a computer having access to a computer program to implement processing operations;

identifying an originator of a Web site;

identifying a type of Web-based content for the originator, the Web-based content having a plurality of terms including a first term and a second term;

identifying a structure for the type of Web-based content;

selecting a table from among a plurality of tables that corresponds to the originator, the type, and the structure;

retrieving a substitution unit from the table for each the first term and the second term according to a priority for the first term and the second term, wherein the priority defines the inclusivity of the first term relative to the second term; and

generating an output comprising data that represents the substitution units.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising,

determining the priority of the first term and the second term;

and

using the priority to identify an order for retrieving the substitution unit from the table for each of the first term and the second term.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising,

identifying a context for the first term and the second term, wherein the context relates to at least one term in the Web-based content that appears in proximity to the first term and the second term, and wherein the substitution unit for each of the first term and the second term relates to the substitution unit.