Synchronous Texts

• US 20140039871A1
• Filed: 08/02/2012
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Richard Henry Dana Crawford
• Original Assignee: Richard Henry Dana Crawford
• Inventors: Crawford, Richard Henry Dana
• Application Number:
  US13/565,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20140039871A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30

Abstract

A method and apparatus to synchronize segments of text with timed vocalizations. Plain text captions present syllabic timings visually while their vocalization is heard. Captions in standard formats are optionally used. Synchronous playback speeds are controlled. Syllabic segments are aligned with timing points in a custom format. Verified constant timings are variably assembled into component segments. Outputs include styled custom caption and HTML presentations. Related texts are aligned with segments and controlled in plain text row sets. Translations, synonyms, structures, pictures and other context rows are aligned. Pictures in sets are aligned and linked in tiered sorting carousels. Alignment of row set contents is constant with variable display width wraps. Sorting enables users to rank aligned contexts where segments are used. Personalized contexts are compared with group sorted links. Variable means to express constant messages are compared. Vocal language is heard in sound, seen in pictures and animated text. The methods are used to learn language.

Claims

1. A text aligning system to align segments of one or more text contexts with corresponding segments of a text, to provide a reader with ample experiences and definitions of the text segments, the system comprising:

a computer text editing environment which, within a single text input area, enables the control of numbers or text in one or more human languages, while also allowing inclusion of one or more empty spaces between words or numbers;

a text which is segmented into word parts, single words, phrases of multiple words, or sentences, wherein the text may include language that is unknown to a person reading the text;

a number of context texts, each of which is segmented into word parts, single words, phrases, sentences, classifications, timing numbers, or links to images, and where each context text segment corresponds to an associated text segment;

a single combined text containing a select number of segmented context texts, and also the correspondingly segmented text;

a computer program to gather both text and context text inputs, then output context text segments in alignment with text segments, while aligning consistently in one or more display formats, including at least one of a) directly editable text and bitext formats and b) captions synchronized with audio/visual formats;

whereby a person can optionally access one or more context texts, each aligned with corresponding segmentations in the text, so the person can read translations or restatements of the text, identify structures within the text, define synchronous timings for segments of text, touch phonetic segments while hearing their vocalization, hear vocalization segments while seeing synchronous phonetic segmentations in the text, or see images which visually depict select segments of the text, and so experience, know and learn new language found in the text.