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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1998
Kenneth Jong, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
AT&T Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for speech-text-transmit communication over data networks includes speech recognition devices and text to speech conversion devices that translate speech signals input to the terminal into text and text data received from a data network into speech output signals. The speech input signals are translated into text based on phonemes obtained from a spectral analysis of the speech input signals. The text data is transmitted to a receiving party over the data network as a plurality of text data packets such that a continuous stream of text data is obtained. The receiving party's terminal receives the text data and may immediately display the text data and/or translate it into speech output signals using the text to speech conversion device. The text to speech conversion device uses speech pattern data stored in a speech pattern database for synthesizing a human voice for playing of the speech output signals using a speech output device.