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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1996
George D Grayson, Parker, TX (US);
James W Bell, Plano, TX (US);
French E Hickman, Chicago, IL (US);
Douglas W Gillespie, Richardson, TX (US);
Trent M Wyatt, Allen, TX (US);
7thStreet.com, Inc., Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
Electronic conferencing is provide over a computer network, such as the Internet, by passing streams of text with embedded explicit audio and graphics commands. Text is translated to audible speech at the end-user computers by a text-to-speech processor to reduce the amount of data transferred between computers. Implicit commands are generated from the text at the end-user computers as the audible speech is generated. Implicit command may control, for example, the animation of lips to provide a realistic image of the words of the text being spoken. Explicit commands can be used to control the voice characteristics by the text-to-speech processor or to control animation.