Mobile communication device including text-to-speech module, a touch sensitive screen, and customizable tiles displayed thereon

摘要

A customized live the application module can be configured in association with the mobile communication device in order to automatically vocalize the information preselected by a user in a multitude of languages. A text-to-speech application module can be integrated with the customized live tile application module to automatically vocalize the preselected information. The information can be obtained from a tile and/or a website integrated with a remote server and announced after a text to speech conversion process without opening the tile, if the tiles are selected for announcement of information by the device. The information can be obtained in real-time. Such an approach automatically and instantly pushes a vocal alert with respect to the user-selected information on the mobile communication device thereby permitting the user to continue multitasking. Information from tiles can also be rendered on second screens from a mobile device.

主权项

1. A method for obtaining user-selected information on mobile communication devices from active tiles displayed on the mobile devices and selected by users, comprising:
providing a first mobile communication device including data network communications hardware and a. touch-sensitive display screen and associating a customized live tile application module with said first mobile communication device to enable a user of said first mobile communication device to selectively provide information preselected by the user for rendering as images in a live tile rendering on said touch-sensitive display screen together with other tiles, wherein said live tile comprises a tile space at least as large as a double tile on said touch-sensitive display screen when rendering together with other tiles, and speech in at least one language pre-selected by the user to a speaker integrated in or wirelessly associated with the first mobile communication device while the live tile continues to be rendered on said touch-sensitive display screen together with other tiles, and also providing information for selective rendering as at least one more of:
speech to a speaker wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a flat panel display that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a second. mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, or speech on the second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device; obtaining said information for rendering from said first mobile communication device by selection of a tile with images of interest to a user and being displayed therein thus enabling the user to thereby expand a selected application associated with the selected tile and thereafter enable the retrieving of data associated with said tile information from a remote server; and selectively providing at least one of said tile information and said data associated with said tile information for rendering by the selected application as at least one of images on said touch-sensitive display screen and speech to a speaker also integrated in the first mobile communication device, and also for providing information for rendering at least one more of:
speech to a speaker wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a flat panel display that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, or speech on the second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device.