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Methods and systems recommend a mutually-agreeable location to parties invited to a meeting. A method analyzes attributes of the meeting, attributes of the invited parties, and attributes of the various potential locations to prepare a list of recommended locations. To arrive at the list of recommended locations, the method may leverage all available attributes regarding the parties, the engagement type, and the potential locations, to create a value that represents a degree that a potential location correlates with the parties' attributes and meeting attributes. The set of recommended locations is sent to the invited parties. The method then determines, from party responses that each include a list of locations that are acceptable to that party, which of the recommended locations is agreed upon.

Method for recommending mutually-agreeable locations

In a text-to-speech system, a method of converting text-to-speech can include receiving a text input and comparing the received text input to at least one entry in a text-to-speech cache memory. Each entry in the text-to-speech cache memory can specify a corresponding spoken output. If the text input matches one of the entries in the text-to-speech cache memory, the cached speech output specified by the matching entry can be provided.

Method and system for text-to-speech caching

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