User interface controller for text-to-speech synthesizer
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsFrode Holm, Steve Pearson
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An application-independent, text-to-speech control system which employs an easy-to-use transport from which a user can control most text-to-speech conversion functions without prior training. It provides a control means by which user designated areas may be sequentially selected, stored and played. Furthermore, moving back and forward through user-selected text may be controlled by the user, with the synthesized speech output maintaining the proper pauses and inflections.
Claims14
A text-to-speech synthesizer for translating a plurality of discontiguous user-selected portions of text in an independent target application into an audio output that sounds like human speech, comprising:
- a transport control bar;
- a region store button contained on said transport control bar which when activated initiates a copy of a user-selected portion of text into one of a plurality of numerically indexed storage buffers such that said each of said plurality of numerically indexed storage buffers contains one of said plurality of discontiguous user-selected portions of text;
- and
- a text-to-speech engine which when activated sequentially translates the discontiguous user-selected portions of text stored in said indexed storage buffers into an audio output that sounds like human speech.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.