Apple Inc.

Liam Weiner

Thomas R Gruber

Hong M Chen

Devang Kalidas Naik

Justin G Binder

Lia T Napolitano

Gunnar Evermann

Charles Srisuwananukorn

Shaun Eric Williams

Christina Elizabeth Warren

Amol V Pattekar

Daniel T Kurtz

Nathan Taylor

Samir Bajaj

The method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. A first speech input including at least one word is received. A first phonetic representation of the at least one word is determined, the first phonetic representation comprising a first set of phonemes selected from a speech recognition phonetic alphabet. The first set of phonemes is mapped to a second set of phonemes to generate a second phonetic representation, where the second set of phonemes is selected from a speech synthesis phonetic alphabet. The second phonetic representation is stored in association with a text string corresponding to the at least one word.

System and method for user-specified pronunciation of words for speech synthesis and recognition

A method of implementing challenges in single-player games starts with a server receiving a challenge from a first mobile device and transmitting the challenge to a second mobile device. The challenge may include a high score or an achievement of a single-player game obtained on the first mobile device. The server may determine that a new high score is obtained on the second mobile device that is equal or greater than the high score included in the challenge or that the achievement is completed on the second mobile device. The server may then transmit a notification to the first mobile device that the challenge has been completed. If the server determines that the new high score is obtained, the notification may include a new challenge from the second mobile device to the first mobile device and the new challenge may include the new high score. Other embodiments are also described.

Implementing challenges in single-player games

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