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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. 03, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stephen R. Baum, Needham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V., Ieper, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/308 ; G10L 1/508 ; G06K 1/918 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/308 ; G10L 1/508 ; G06K 1/918 ;
Abstract
A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium for avoiding headers/footers while synthesizing speech for a reading machine includes instructions for causing the reading machine to determine if text in regions of a document correspond to text of a header or a footer and synthesize speech to read the document aloud to a user of the reading machine, while ignoring those portions of the document that correspond to a header or footer.