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Messaging server language configuration method and apparatus

US6192344A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 16, 1998
Grant dateFeb 20, 2001
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Expiry dateDec 16, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M2203/254
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for adding a spoken language for output generated by a messaging program including a voice messaging program and a voice messaging program running without re-compiling the messaging program includes providing the voice messaging program configured to generate an output message, providing the language server to receive the output message, to receive an ordered plurality of phrase references, to use phrase references from the ordered plurality of phrase references to identify a plurality of spoken phrases, and to output the plurality of spoken phrases, installing a set of language configuration data in a directory in the memory, the set of language configuration data configured to specify an ordered plurality of phrase references to the language server in response to the output message, installing a set of phrase files in a second directory in the memory, each phrase file in the set having an associated phrase reference and configured to store a unique spoken phrase, the set of language configuration data and the set of phrase files both associated with a spoken language, receiving a request in the messaging program to use the spoken language for the messaging program, and c…

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