Telephonic communications – Audio message storage – retrieval – or synthesis – Multilingual system or operation
Patent
1992-01-27
1993-05-25
Brown, Thomas W.
Telephonic communications
Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis
Multilingual system or operation
379 97, 379201, H04M 164, H04M 350, H04M 1108
Patent
active
052146898
ABSTRACT:
An interactive transportation information system provides schedule information to a caller utilizing a Touch-Tone type telephone. The system includes a database storing a digital code specific to each station, schedule information and a plurality of speech files for generating messages to the caller. Voice messages prompt the caller to press keypad buttons for a departure station, an arrival station, and a desired departure or arrival time. The database is then searched for a transportation vehicle departing the departure station at the time closest to the desired time, whereupon a voice message is generated identifying its departure and arrival times. The system also resolves station name ambiguities and simplifies dialogue for travel to and from the stations.
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Brown Thomas W.
Next Generaton Info, Inc.
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