Dynamic playout of audible punctuation in connection with playout of playlist content

摘要

Disclosed are methods and systems for dynamically playing audible punctuation in connection with playout of content defined by a playlist. A client receives a playlist defining a sequence of media content items to be played out by the client, the playlist indicating attribute data for each media content item of the sequence. For each of at least one of the media content items of the playlist, the client determines based on the attribute data and perhaps based on user preference data an audible punctuation to play out in connection with playout of that media content item, and the client retrieves and plays out the audible punctuation in connection with playout of that media content item.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining by a client device, based at least on history of user input defining audible content playout selections at the client device, a genre of audio that a user of the client device tends to prefer, and establishing by the client device, based on the determined genre, mapping data that correlates each of various types of media content with respective audible punctuation of the determined genre, wherein the types comprise news stories selected from the group consisting of sports, politics, finance, entertainment, traffic, and weather; receiving into the client device a playlist defining a sequence of media content items for playout by the client device, wherein the playlist indicates respectively for each of a plurality of the media content items which of the types of media content the media content item is; requesting and receiving by the client device from one or more network servers the media content items of the received playlist, and playing out by the client device the received media content items in accordance with the sequence defined by the playlist; and for a given one of the plurality of the media content items, (i) determining by the client device the indicated type of the given media content item, (ii) determining by the client device, based on the determined type of the given media content item, the audible punctuation of the determined genre that the mapping data correlates with the determined type of the given media content item, wherein the determined audible punctuation is not indicated by the received playlist, and (iii) playing out by the client device the determined audible punctuation in connection with playout by the client device of the given media content item.