Method and voice communicator to provide a voice communication

Details Method and voice communicator to provide a voice communication Method and voice communicator to provide a voice communication

2005-09-28

2011-12-13

Phan, Joseph T (Department: 2614)

Telephonic communications

Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis

Multimedia system

C379S076000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08077838

ABSTRACT:
A method and voice communicator to provide a voice communication is described. The method may include identifying text to be communicated and automatically processing the text to generate an audio equivalent of the text. For example, the text may be scraped from a web page. The method may include identifying an intended recipient of the audio equivalent and thereafter communicating the audio equivalent as a telephone communication (e.g., a voice mail message in a voice mailbox). Thus, identifying the intended recipient may include requesting a telephone number of a sender (caller) of the voice communication. In an embodiment, the method comprises monitoring selection by a user of a contact list available on the voice communicator wherein the contact list includes a plurality of recipient names and their associated telephone numbers. The audio equivalent is communicated to the recipient device over, for example, PSTN or VoIP network.

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