Telephonic communications – Audio message storage – retrieval – or synthesis – Multilingual system or operation
Patent
1996-05-28
1998-03-31
Brown, Thomas W.
Telephonic communications
Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis
Multilingual system or operation
379 96, 379214, 379396, H04M 350, H04M 1108
Patent
active
RE0357588
ABSTRACT:
A synthesized message storage and retrieval system generates response messages by concatentating a sequence of words that have been recorded in digital memory in the voice of the operator in accordance with prescribed inflection characteristics. By linking together phrases or words having selectively chosen inflections in the voice of the operator, the resulting vocalized message will more naturally simulate the manner of speech of the operator and thereby provide a more realistic verbalization of the message to the customer. In accordance with the communications functionality of the operator's voice message mechanism, the system performs a plurality of tasks for the operator, including automatically answering all incoming calls with a prerecorded phrase dependent on the type of call being serviced and, by means of an auxiliary audio interface with the call director, the output message can be delivered to the customer whether or not the operator is connected to the call. In addition, rather than audibly vocalizing the message out to the calling subscriber, when retrieved from memory the contents of the message are transmitted in digital format, so that they may be captured and visually indicated to the customer via a digital display provided in the calling subscriber's telephone equipment.
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Cannon Dale E.
Morris Jo
Winter Walter W.
Brown Thomas W.
Golden Enterprises, Inc.
Wands Charles E.
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