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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008

Filed:

May. 29, 2003
Applicant:

Ashish Vora, Naperville, IL (US);

Inventor:

Ashish Vora, Naperville, IL (US);

Assignee:

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G06F 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates voice output for an application. During operation, the system receives a symbolic representation of data to be outputted from the application, wherein the symbolic representation is locale-independent. The system also obtains a locale attribute that identifies a version of a language that is spoken in the locale. Next, the system expands the symbolic representation into a fully articulated locale-specific textual representation of the data, and then associates the textual representation with one or more audio files containing locale-specific voice output corresponding to the textual representation.


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