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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edmund R MacKenty, Watertown, MA (US);
David E Owen, Groton, MA (US);
Barry M Arons, Waltham, MA (US);
Marshall W Clemens, Lincoln, MA (US);
Assignee:
Sonicon, Inc., Watertown, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704270 ; 704258 ; 704260 ;
Abstract
Representing HTML documents audibly includes the steps of assigning (214) unique sounds to HTML tags and events encountered in an HTML document, producing the associated sounds whenever those tags or events are encountered (218), and representing encountered text as speech (220). Speech and non-speech sounds may be produced simultaneously or substantially simultaneously. A corresponding system (10) is also disclosed.