Facsimile-to-speech system

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1989-10-27

1992-02-25

Dwyer, James L.

Telephonic communications

Telephone line or system combined with diverse electrical...

To produce visual-graphic copy

381 52, H04M 1100

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ABSTRACT:
Written material is read at low cost by a computer-based system which is designed to receive via a telephone line a facsimile of the written material submitted by a system user. Once the facsimile is received, the system performs an optical character recognition (OCR) process thereon. The text thus identified by the OCR process is converted to intelligent speech using a speech synthesizer. The synthesized speech is communicated back to the system user either over the already established telephone connection or in a subsequent call.

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