System and method of providing emotive background sound to text

A system for providing an emotive background sound to a text that includes key words and/or key nontextual indicia, the system comprising:

• a first memory having stored therein key words and/or key nontextual indicia;
• a second memory having stored therein emotive sounds with each key word and each key nontextual indicia having associated therewith an emotive sound;
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• a microprocessor being in communication with the memories and being adapted to compare received words and nontextual indicia of the text with the key words and key nontextual indicia stored in the first memory, and if there is a match between one of more key words and the key nontextual indicia, to generate at an output thereof a signal representative of the emotive sound associated with the matched key word or nontextual indicia.

A system for providing an emotive background sound to a text that includes key words and/or nontextual indicia, the system comprising:

• means for recognizing words and/or nontextual indicia in the text;
• a first file containing key words and key nontextual indicia;
• a second file containing emotive sounds with an emotive sound being associated with a key word and/or key nontextual indicia;
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• means for comparing the words and/or nontextual indicia with those contained in the first file, and if there is found to be a match, for causing an emotive sound to be generated which corresponds to the matched key word and/or key nontextual indicia.

A system for providing an emotive background sound to a text that includes key words and/or key nontextual indicia, the system comprising:

• a processor system that includes a processor, first and second memory sections, and sound generating circuitry;
• the first memory section storing key words and key nontextual indicia;
• the second memory storing emotive sounds with each emotive sound corresponding to a key word or key nontextual indicia stored in the first memory section;
• the processor being adapted to detect words and nontextual indicia in the text and to compare same to the key words and the key nontextual indicia stored in the first memory section and to cause the sound generating circuitry to generate an emotive sound if there is a match of a key word and/or key non-text indicia of the text with one in the first memory.

A system which generates a background emotive sound in response to speech which contains words and sounds, said system comprising:

• a microphone which is adapted to be in communication with the speech and which generates an analog electrical representative of the speech in communication therewith;
• an analog-to-digital converter in communication with the microphone and which converts an electrical signal representative of speech in communication with the microphone into a digital format;
• a microprocessor in communication with the analog-to-digital converter;
• a first memory having stored therein key words and key sounds;
• a second memory having stored therein emotive sounds with each key word and each key sound having associated therewith an emotive sound;
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• the microprocessor being in communication with the memories and being adapted to compare received words and sounds of the speech with the key words and key sounds stored in the first memory, and if there is a match between one or more of the key words and/or the key sounds, to generate at an output thereof a signal representative of the emotive sound associated with the matched key word or key sound.

A system which, in response to digitized words and sounds, generates speech and a background emotive sound, said system comprising:

• first and second microprocessors;
• a first memory having stored therein key words and key sounds;
• a second memory having stored therein emotive sounds with each key word and each key sound having associated therewith an emotive sound;
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• the first microprocessor being adapted to receive the digitized words and sounds and in communication with the memories and being adapted to compare the digitized words and sounds with the key words and key sounds stored in the first memory, and if there is a match between one or more of the key words and/or the key sounds, to generate at an output thereof a signal representative of the emotive sound associated with the matched key word or key sound;
• the second microprocessor being adapted to receive the digitized words and sounds and to generate at an output thereof a signal representative of the words and sounds;
• first and second sound drivers;
• the first sound driver being in communication with the first microprocessor;
• the second sound driver being in communication with the second microprocessor;
• a sound mixer being in communication with the first and second sound drivers;
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• a speaker being in communication with the sound mixer.

A method of providing an emotive background sound to a given text which includes at least one key word and/or key nontextual indicia comprising the steps of:

• providing a source of key words and/or key nontextual indicia with an emotive sound appropriate to each key word or key nontextual indicia being associated with each key word or nontextual indicia;
• sensing the text to determine if a key word or key nontextual indicia is present therein;
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• generating an emotive sound associated with a key word and/or key nontextual indicia found in the text.

A method of providing an emotive background sound to speech which includes at least one key word and/or key sound comprising the steps of:

• sensing the words and sounds contained within the speech;
• comparing the words and sounds contained within the speech to key words and key sounds stored within a file with each key word or key sound contained within the file having an emotive sound appropriate thereto associated therewith;
• and
• generating an emotive sound appropriate to a key word and/or key sound found within the speech such that the emotive sound occurs during the speech.

A method of providing an emotive background sound to a given text which includes at least one key word and/or key nontextual indicia comprising the steps of:

• providing a source of key words and/or key nontextual indicia with an emotive sound appropriate to each key word or key nontextual indicia being associated with each key word or nontextual indicia;
• sensing the text to determine if a key word or key nontextual indicia is present therein;
• and
• generating a file containing said text and emotive sound parameters associated with a key word and/or key nontextual indicia found in the text.