Name and address processor

Details Name and address processor Name and address processor

1995-12-18

1998-06-02

Hudspeth, David R.

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Synthesis

704 9, 704270, G10L 900

Patent

active

057616400

ABSTRACT:
A name and address processor for processing text contained within an existing database for subsequent text-to-speech synthesis. The processor receives as input a listing contained within a textual source database, intelligently recognizes any fields contained within the textual source, normalizes the text contained within the fields, detects acronyms contained within the fields, identifies and marks any particular textual entries as necessitating spelling and then formats the processed text for output to a text-to-speech synthesizer. The processor processes in parallel all name field entries, address field entries, and locality field entries using tables of rules as well as both regular expression and non-regular expression methodologies.

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