Facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a domain name or a network address containing a domain name
US8688455B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 25, 2012 |
| Grant date | Apr 1, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 25, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2101/604
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus of facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a domain name are provided. At a processor of a computing device, a pronunciation of a top level domain of a network address is determined by one or more of: generating a phonetic representation of each character in the top level domain pronounced individually; and, generating a tokenized representation of each individual character of the top level domain suitable for interpretation by a text-to-speech engine. For each other level domain of the network address, at the processor, a pronunciation of the other level domain is determined based on one or more recognized words within the other level domain.
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