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OwnerGeorge D. Grayson, James W. Bell +3inventors
InventorsGeorge D. Grayson, James W. Bell, French E. Hickman, Douglas W. Gillespie, Trent M. Wyatt
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Electronic conferencing is provide over a computer network, such as the Internet, by passing streams of text with embedded explicit audio and graphics commands. Text is translated to audible speech at the end-user computers by a text-to-speech processor to reduce the amount of data transferred between computers. Implicit commands are generated from the text at the end-user computers as the audible speech is generated. Implicit command may control, for example, the animation of lips to provide a realistic image of the words of the text being spoken. Explicit commands can be used to control the voice characteristics by the text-to-speech processor or to control animation.
A method of communicating over a network, comprising the steps of:
The method of claim I wherein said step of generating implicit commands includes the step of generating lip synch commands for generating lip movements corresponding to the audible speech.
A method of generating a presentation on a plurality of participant computers from host computer over a network, comprising the steps of:
A method of enabling two or more participant computers to communicate over a network, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.