Nokia Corporation

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Simona Grothues

Peter Buth

Wolfgang Theimer

Klaus Kespohl

Andre Köll

Amir Iman

The invention relates to a navigation system, a terminal and a processing device for a navigation system, as well as a method for displaying navigation icons on display means of a terminal. In order to make efficient use of the storage space in the terminal and to allow flexible display of navigation icons, the storage of partial graphics in the terminal is proposed, with navigation icons being able to be composed from said partial graphics. To display a currently suitable navigation icon, the required partial graphics are then selected and composed to form the navigation icon. A processing device according to the invention is able to provide information which makes it possible for the terminal to determine the required partial graphics. The invention also relates to a module for a terminal or for a processing device comprising respective processing means.

System and method for providing and displaying navigation information

A method of composing messages for speech output and the improvement of the quality of reproduction of speech outputs. A series of original sentences for messages is segmented and stored as audio files with search criteria. The length, position, and transition values for the respective segments can be recorded and stored. A sentence to be reproduced is transmitted in a format corresponding to the format of the search criteria. It is determined whether the sentence to be reproduced can be fully reproduced by one segment or a succession of stored segments. The segments found in each case are examined using their entries as to how far the individual segments match as regards speech rhythm. The audio files of the segments in which the examination resulted in the pre-requisites for optimal maintaining of the natural speech rhythm are combined and output for reproduction.

Reassembling speech sentence fragments using associated phonetic property

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