Variable-depth audio presentation of textual information
US9431004B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 5, 2013 |
| Grant date | Aug 30, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 25, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/6125
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A respective sequence of tracks of Internet content of common subject matter is queued to each of a plurality of stations, where each of the tracks of Internet content resides on a respective Internet resource in textual form. In response to receiving a sample input, snippets of each of multiple tracks queued to a selected station among the plurality of stations is transmitted for audible presentation as synthesized human speech, where each of the snippets includes only a subset of a corresponding track. Thereafter, one or more complete tracks among the multiple tracks for which snippets were previously transmitted are transmitted for audio presentation as synthesized human speech.
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