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Yahoo! Inc.

Gudrun Socher

Mohan Vishwanath

Anurag Mendhekar

Methods and apparatus to selectively display a pre-determined set of contents for a specific class of devices. The apparatus includes an image generator, a section identifier and a section manipulator. The image generator generates an image of a pre-determined rendition of the set of contents; the section identifier identifies a section in the contents based on a preference of the provider of the set of contents; and the section manipulator re-formats the identified section to generate a new rendition, depending on a characteristic of the specific class of devices and a preference of the provider. After the re-formatting, the new rendition is displayed on the specific class of devices.

Method and apparatus for re-formatting web pages

A method and an apparatus of synthesizing speech from a piece of input text . In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of retrieving the input text entered into a computing system, and transforming the input text based on the semantics of at least one word of the input text to generate a formatted text for speech synthesis. The transforming includes adding an audio rendering effect tot he input text based on the semantics of at least one work, the audio rendering effect comprising background music, special effect sounds, and context-sensitive sounds. In another embodiment, the transformation also depends on at least one characteristic of the person listening to the speech output In yet another embodiment, the transformation further depends on at least one characteristic of the hardware employed by the user to listen to the speech output The transformed text can be further modified to fit a text-to-speech engine to generate the speech output

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Gudrun Socher