Telephonic communications – Audio message storage – retrieval – or synthesis
Patent
1994-03-09
1995-08-22
Dwyer, James L.
Telephonic communications
Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis
379 88, 379 89, 379201, 401241, 40455, 206232, 380 23, H04M 164
Patent
active
054447674
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for recording and delivering personalized audio messages are provided. The system includes a central facility computer system (CF), a store front programming system (SFS), and a portable playback device (PPD). When a customer desires to send a personalized message to another person, the customer communicates via a telecommunications channel with the CF. Under control of a CF processor, a outgoing message module of the CF provides instructions to the customer, who enters required information and provides the personalized audio message. The personalized audio message is digitized by a CF voice digitizer and transmitted from the CF via a data interface to the SFS. The SFS receives the digitized personalized audio message data from the CF and uses its playback device programmer to program data representing the audio message onto the PPD. The PPD is an audio chip having a nonvolatile memory, an external switch, a battery and a speaker. When the switch is pressed, the data representing the audio message stored in the memory is sent to the speaker (via a D/A converter where the data is digital) where a facsimile of the original audio message is heard.
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Clarke Robert J.
Goetcheus Gregory J.
Russell Richard H.
Dharia Parag
Dwyer James L.
Goetcheus Gregory J.
Gordon David P.
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