Real Time Popularity Based Audible Content Acquisition

摘要

A personalized news service provides personalized news programs for its users by generating personalized combinations of audible versions of news stories derived from text-based based versions of the news stories. The audible versions may be generated from the text-based version by a text-to-speech system, or may by recording a person reading aloud the text-based version. To acquire recordings, the personalized news service can make a determination that a particular news story has a threshold extent of popularity. The news service can then transmit a request to a remote recording station for a recording of a verbal reading of the particular news story. The news service can then receive the requested recording from the remote recording station.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining, by a computing device, that a news story has at least a threshold extent of popularity; transmitting, to a remote news studio, a request for a verbal reading of a text-based version of the news story; receiving, from the remote news studio, a recording of the verbal reading; and transmitting, by the computing device, a playlist to a client device, wherein the playlist includes a reference to the recording of the verbal reading, and wherein reception of the playlist by the client device triggers the client device to: (i) based on the reference, retrieve the recording of the verbal reading, and (ii) play out the recording of the verbal reading.