- Patent Title: Method for converting character text messages to audio files with respective titles determined using the text message word attributes for their selection and reading aloud with mobile devices
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Application No.: US13372524Application Date: 2012-02-14
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Publication No.: US09699297B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Cüneyt Göktekin
- Applicant: Cüneyt Göktekin
- Applicant Address: US MA Burlington
- Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Burlington
- Agency: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.
- Priority: DE11155115 20110219
- Main IPC: G10L13/00
- IPC: G10L13/00 ; G06F17/28 ; H05K11/02 ; H04M1/725 ; G10L13/08 ; H04L12/58 ; H04B1/08 ; H04M1/60

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for selecting and downloading content from a content provider which is accessible via an IP/DNS/URL address to a mobile device, the content being any text information data, for converting the text information data to at least one audio message and for storing the at least one audio message as at least one audio file on the mobile device, wherein the at least one audio file is playable and discernable as a music file. Said method implemented on a mobile phone enables controlling and playing the audio messages as music files by determining a short title associated with the audio file using word underline and size attributes of the text, for user selection on the mobile's graphical user interface, for instance also in a car environment with a car kit enabling a control and a selection of one or more of said at least one audio files for playing from the mobile phone.
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