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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1988
James R Blakley, Chicago, IL (US);
American Telephone and Telegraph Company AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A call announcement arrangement that obtains the calling party name from a database search and uses a text-to-speech unit to generate speech signals for transmission to the called communication station. The calling party name is spoken at the station instead of being displayed. For a conventional analog station, the name is spoken after the called party has answered in response to ringing at the station but before a connection is completed to the caller. The called party accepts the caller either by remaining off-hook or by transmitting a connection signal using, for example, flash or tone signaling. For other illustrative station equipment such as an ISDN speakerphone or a specially adapted analog speakerphone, the calling party name is spoken before the called party answers in place of or in addition to normal ringing. Caller-identifying speech signal are also transmitted to a station determined to be busy to announce the caller name for a call waiting call.