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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
May. 26, 2005
Applicants:
Alex Escott, Vancouver, CA;
Norrie K. Taylor, Vancouver, CA;
Inventors:
Alex Escott, Vancouver, CA;
Norrie K. Taylor, Vancouver, CA;
Assignee:
QNX Software Systems (Wavemakers), Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, unknown;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/00 (2006.01); G10L 13/08 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method are provided for creating shorter more natural sounding voice messages and prompts from a plurality of pre-recorded sound segments, the prerecorded sound segments are dynamically cross faded in order to produce a more natural blended sound, various cross fade parameters such as the fade length and the shape of the cross fade amplitude envelopes are determined based on characteristics of the various sound segments being combined.