Audio menus describing media contents of media players

Details Audio menus describing media contents of media players Audio menus describing media contents of media players

2006-09-29

2010-11-09

Abebe, Daniel D (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Application

C704S260000, C715S728000, C715S729000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07831432

ABSTRACT:
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for creating an audio menu describing media content of a media player. Embodiments include retrieving metadata describing the media files managed by the media player; converting at least a portion of the metadata to speech; creating one or more media files for the audio menu; and saving the speech in the audio portion of the one or more the media files for the audio menu.

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