Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer conferencing – Demand based messaging
Reexamination Certificate
2000-07-20
2004-10-05
Lin, Wen-Tai (Department: 2154)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer conferencing
Demand based messaging
C709S203000, C704S009000, C704S260000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06801931
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to the field of electronic messaging and, more particularly, to a system and method of personalizing received electronic messages through text-to-speech conversion. Electronic messaging, especially Internet e-mail using protocols such as Post Office Protocol (POP3) or Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) has become extremely popular over the past several years. Besides being able to send plain text messages, users sending e-mail today are able to format messages in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), attach practically any kind and number of supplementary documents or files, including images, executable programs, documents created by a word processor, sound files, video files, and many others. Attachments can be sent in compressed or uncompressed formats. The capability of sending audio files as e-mail attachments has led some users to use e-mail in a manner similar to voice mail.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a system and method for personalizing electronic messages by rendering them to recipients in the voice of a predetermined human speaker. The invention may be implemented by associating with a message payload a set of basis vectors comprising speech parameters derived from the predetermined human speaker.
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Croft Thomas M.
Ramesh Rajaram
Ramesh Tripurasundari
Coats & Bennett P.L.L.C.
Ericsson Inc.
Lin Wen-Tai
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