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6993485 Method and system for refrigerator with integrated presentation mode  
A method and system for a refrigerator having an integrated presentation mode is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a cabinet, a refrigerating compartment disposed within the cabinet, a display...
6985864 Electronic document processing apparatus and method for forming summary text and speech read-out  
On receipt of a tagged file, as a tagged document, at step S 1 , a document processing apparatus at step S 2 derives the attribute information for read-out from tags of the tagged file and embeds...
6983249 Systems and methods for voice synthesis  
Systems and methods for voice synthesis are disclosed for providing a synthesized voice message that is consonant with the taste of a customer and a program storage device readable by machine to...
6965862 Reading machine  
A portable reading machine has a scanner for scanning an image comprising text. The scanner has a scanning area occupying a maximum width and an active width defined by a scanning width limiting...
6952673 System and method for adapting speech playback speed to typing speed  
A system and method for automatically adjusting the rate at which recorded speech is played back as a typist manually transcribes the speech. The typing speed is measured and a speech playback rate...
6947896 Text marking for deferred correction  
A method for marking dictated text for deferred correction or review of dictated text in a speech recognition system proofreader, comprising the steps of: displaying previously dictated text;...
6937986 Automatic dynamic speech recognition vocabulary based on external sources of information  
An interactive voice response system is able to respond to questions from users on general topics by including words related to those topics in the grammar of a speech recognition system. Words...
6937987 Character information receiving apparatus  
When a received character data is decoded by a decoder 10, a word division circuit 21 divides the data into word units, and a voice storage circuit 22 outputs a voice data corresponding to...
6925437 Electronic mail device and system  
An amount of character setting information inserted in a mail text is minimized. A character is selected from a list and a given text letter string of the inputted information is inserted in the...
6912691 Delivering voice portal services using an XML voice-enabled web server  
An application server, configured for executing an application defined by XML documents for delivering voice portal services, accesses subscriber attributes from a standardized information database...
6901431 Application server providing personalized voice enabled web application services using extensible markup language documents  
A unified web-based voice messaging system provides voice application control between a web browser and an application server via an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection on an Internet...
6876969 Document read-out apparatus and method and storage medium  
A document read-out apparatus has a document read-out function for reading out a document according to a first speech parameter. The document read-out apparatus is provided with a first specifying...
6865535 Synchronization control apparatus and method, and recording medium  
In a synchronization control apparatus, a voice-language-information generating section generates the voice language information of a word which a robot utters. A voice synthesizing section...
6832197 Machine interface  
A machine interface for interfacing a user to a machine receives input words from a user. Scores for at least some of the input words are determined using scores for words appearing in each...
6813601 Highly compressed voice and data transmission system and method for mobile communications  
Compression of voice and data signals by at least an order of magnitude that permits greater use of the limited bandwidth at the low frequency of operation. A voice recognition system that converts...
6810379 Client/server architecture for text-to-speech synthesis  
A client/server text-to-speech synthesis system and method divides the method optimally between client and server. The server stores large databases for pronunciation analysis, prosody generation,...
6792406 Information processing apparatus, portable device, electronic pet apparatus recording medium storing information processing procedures and information processing method  
In an information processing apparatus, a portable device, an electronic pet apparatus, recording medium storing information processing procedures and an information processing method, various...
6789064 Message management system  
A system and method for managing voice messages by (1) combining prerecorded phrases with message templates to generate messages, and (2) providing a scheduling interface for scheduling generated...
6778961 Method and system for delivering text-to-speech in a real time telephony environment  
A method and system for communicating information to a telephony user in response to a request for the information from the telephony user includes a text data source having text documents and a...
6760704 System for generating speech and non-speech audio messages  
An audio information system that may be used to form and convey an audio message having speech overlapped with non-speech audio is provided. The system has components to store a context indicator...
6760700 Method and system for proofreading and correcting dictated text  
A method of proofreading and correcting dictated text contained in an electronic document can include selecting proofreading criteria for identifying textual errors contained in the electronic...
6748358 ELECTRONIC SPEAKING DOCUMENT VIEWER, AUTHORING SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND EDITING ELECTRONIC CONTENTS TO BE REPRODUCED BY THE ELECTRONIC SPEAKING DOCUMENT VIEWER, SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE CARD AND INFORMATION PROVIDER SERVER  
An improved electronic speaking document viewer is provided in order that a user can readily use electronic texts in the same manner as reading text images printed on paper. The electronic speaking...
6745163 Method and system for synchronizing audio and visual presentation in a multi-modal content renderer  
A system and method for a multi-modal browser/renderer that simultaneously renders content visually and verbally in a synchronized manner are provided without having the server applications change....
6738742 Audio notification management system  
A computer system has a notification manager for playing a message to a user by selecting one of a plurality of audio notifications. The method includes the step of setting a priority level for...
6732142 Method and apparatus for audible presentation of web page content  
A web user may elect to have certain frequently changing web content audibly presented in the background while performing other tasks. Content may be audibly presented when it changes, or at...
6728675 Data processor controlled display system with audio identifiers for overlapping windows in an interactive graphical user interface  
There is provided a user friendly display interface system for the interactive handling and sorting out of windows in complex window hierarchical graphical user interfaces. The system provides for...
6724864 Active prompts  
Method and apparatus are provided for generating a prompt stream in a telephony system. At least one voice prompt associated with at least one audio stream to be played to a user of the telephony...
6721781 Method of providing an alternative audio format of a web page in response to a request for audible presentation of the same  
In accordance with the present invention, a web server supports a client choice of audio or standard video presentation of essentially the same web content. A client passes information requesting...
6718015 Remote web page reader  
A method for enabling a user having access to a telephone device to browse the Internet without a Web browser. The method begins by establishing a connection between the user's telephone device and...
6711542 Method of identifying a language and of controlling a speech synthesis unit and a communication device  
The invention relates to a method of identifying a language in which a text is composed in the form of a string of characters, and also to a method of controlling a speech reproduction unit and to...
6711714 Linearization of framesets for audibly rendering frames  
A method for linearizing framesets for audibly rendering structured document frames, in accordance with the present invention, includes accessing a document including a frameset. Frames of the...
6704699 Language acquisition aide  
A stand-alone, hand-held apparatus is provided, which combines elements of a scanning dictionary with an automatic-translation software, for in-context translation. Additionally, the apparatus may...
6697781 Method and apparatus for generating speech from an electronic form  
A speech-generating computer apparatus for generating speech from electronic forms, a method of controlling a computer and a computer-readable media containing program code embodying an application...
6694297 Text information read-out device and music/voice reproduction device incorporating the same  
The present invention has as its object to provide text information to a listener with voice when music is reproduced from a medium on which the text information is stored together with music data...
6687338 Call waiting notification  
A technique for notifying a person who is engaged in a telephone call with a second person that a third person is calling him or her is disclosed. The notification comprises not a series of beeps...
6671671 System and method for transmitting data from customer premise equipment sans modulation and demodulation  
In a system and method for the collection of alphanumeric data from Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) at the behest of an enhanced service provider (such as a utility company) requesting said data,...
6658388 Personality generator for conversational systems  
A method for providing a personality for a conversational system includes providing a plurality of attributes for determining a behavior of the conversational system. When a command is presented to...
6631351 Smart toys  
Talking toys perform simulated conversations with one another. The toys each include a forest of decision graphs. The forest of decision graphs is the same for each toy. Each of the decision graphs...
6625257 Message processing system, method for processing messages and computer readable medium  
A message processing device is adapted to obtain text data and read aloud the text data aloud by using a voice synthesizer. A loudspeaker device is connected to the message processing device to...
6621892 System and method for converting electronic mail text to audio for telephonic delivery  
A system and method are provided for converting a textual portion of an electronic mail message into audio and delivering the audio through a telephone call to a recipient. An electronic mail...
6622121 Testing speech recognition systems using test data generated by text-to-speech conversion  
Methods and systems for testing speech recognition systems are disclosed in which the speech recognition device to be tested is directly monitored in accordance with a text-to-speech device. The...
6615173 Real time audio transmission system supporting asynchronous input from a text-to-speech (TTS) engine  
A system for real time transmission of speech audio received from a text-to-speech (TTS) engine can include a TTS engine and a real time speech audio producer for receiving speech audio from the...
6604094 Simulating human intelligence in computers using natural language dialog  
A method and apparatus for simulating human intelligence and natural language dialog capability is disclosed. The present invention contains a cognitive model of human intelligence ( 20 ), a...
6584440 Method and system for rapid and reliable testing of speech intelligibility in children  
A method and system for testing the speech intelligibility of a child comprises providing a set of target sounds as words in the presence and absence of competing sound(s) of a variety of types so...
6553341 Method and apparatus for announcing receipt of an electronic message  
A method and apparatus for announcing receipt of an electronic message. When a message including text is received, the message is filtered determine what will be announced. Text from the filtered...
6549942 Enhanced delivery of audio data for portable playback  
A system for selection by a user and delivery to the user over an internetwork transmission channel of selected audio data files at a delivery rate of at least twice the delivery rate for normal,...
6546082 Method and apparatus for assisting speech and hearing impaired subscribers using the telephone and central office  
A system and method for Assisting Speech And Hearing-impaired Subscribers Using The Telephone And Central Office is disclosed. The present invention in some preferred embodiments permits remote...
6507817 Voice IP approval system using voice-enabled web based application server  
A web-based voice messaging system uses an application server, configured for executing a voice application defined by XML documents, that accesses subscriber attributes from a standardized...
6490564 Arrangement for defining and processing voice enabled web applications using extensible markup language documents  
A unified web-based voice messaging system provides voice application control between a web browser and an application server via an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection on an Internet...
6490521 Voice-controlled navigation device utilizing wireless data transmission for obtaining maps and real-time overlay information  
A navigation system and method involving wireless communications technology and speech processing technology is presented. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the navigation system...
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