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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2004
Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., St. Charles, IL (US);
Mary Louise Hardzinski, Palatine, IL (US);
Thomas Joseph Mcblain, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., St. Charles, IL (US);
Mary Louise Hardzinski, Palatine, IL (US);
Thomas Joseph McBlain, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
SBC Properties, L.P., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A system () and method () for providing audible caller information to telephone service subscribers is presented. The system () includes a pre-processor () that converts textual caller information from a first data format to a second data format suitable for text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). The pre-processor () can be incorporated in a service node/intelligent peripheral (SN/IP) () in an advanced intelligent network (AIN). In this configuration, the pre-processor () can be used to convert caller-ID with name database entries into a predetermined TTS format. The TTS formatted information can be provided to a TTS synthesized () included in the SN/IP (). In conjunction with a switching service point (SSP) (), the pre-processor () can provide a talking call-waiting feature to subscribers with significantly improved intelligibility.