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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2000
Lewis D. Dodrill, Richmond, VA (US);
Ryan A. Danner, Glen Allen, VA (US);
Steven J. Martin, Richmond, VA (US);
Lewis D. Dodrill, Richmond, VA (US);
Ryan A. Danner, Glen Allen, VA (US);
Steven J. Martin, Richmond, VA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for providing text-to-speech conversion of a body of text is presented. The system includes a first executable resource which generates text portions from the body of text in response to receiving an initial web request to convert the body of text to speech and provides an output in response to generating the text portions comprising a sequence of resource identifiers suitable for use in the text-to-speech conversion of the text portions. The system further includes a second executable resource which receives a text portion web request that requests the conversion of at least one text portion to an audio format, the text portion web request comprising the at least one text portion and one of the resource identifiers, and further provides at least one media file suitable for audio output based on the text portion web request.