Method and apparatus for performing text to speech synthesis

Details Method and apparatus for performing text to speech synthesis Method and apparatus for performing text to speech synthesis

2005-12-27

2005-12-27

Gary, Erika A. (Department: 2681)

Telecommunications

Transmitter and receiver at same station

Radiotelephone equipment detail

C455S466000, C455S553100, C455S456100

Reexamination Certificate

active

06980834

ABSTRACT:
A data communication terminal, such as a cellular telephone, capable of synthesizing speech. The data communication terminal can establish a communication session with a base station over a transmission facility implementing a voice channel and a data channel. The data communication terminal includes a speech synthesizer engine that receives from the remote entity a signal transmitted over the data channel and that conveys the vocal tract characteristics of the message to be delivered as a spoken announcement. The base station generates the signal containing the vocal tract characteristics from a text-based signal of the message to be synthesized. The invention also extends to a base station that can convert the text based message to be synthesized into a signal containing vocal tract characteristics and that sends the signal to a remote terminal over the data channel.

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