Customizable media player with online/offline capabilities

Details Customizable media player with online/offline capabilities Customizable media player with online/offline capabilities

1998-01-12

2000-04-25

Matar, Ahmad F.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Remote data accessing

Accessing a remote server

709218, 709246, G06F 1516

Patent

active

060555661

ABSTRACT:
An information dissemination system comprises an Internet-connected server adapted for gathering information from plural sources, and sorting the information according to subscriber preferences. The sorted information is transmitted via the Internet to a subscriber's Internet Applicance (IA) as electronic documents, where the documents are downloaded to a connected playback device. The playback device may be disconnected from the PC, and the information electronic documents rendered as speech to a speaker in the playback device by a text-to-speech system. In a preferred embodiment annotation is added at the Internet-connected server to control speech characteristics, such as inflection, upon playback. In some embodiments updates may be made by radio with the playback device disconnected from the IA.

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