AUDIO OUTPUT OF A DOCUMENT FROM MOBILE DEVICE

摘要

Architecture for playing a document converted into an audio format to a user of an audio-output capable device. The user can interact with the device to control play of the audio document such as pause, rewind, forward, etc. In more robust implementation, the audio-output capable device is a mobile device (e.g., cell phone) having a microphone for processing voice input. Voice commands can then be input to control play (“reading”) of the document audio file to pause, rewind, read paragraph, read next chapter, fast forward, etc. A communications server (e.g., email, attachments to email, etc.) transcodes text-based document content into an audio format by leveraging a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. The transcoded audio files are then transferred to mobile devices through viable transmission channels. Users can then play the audio-formatted document while freeing hand and eye usage for other tasks.

主权项

1. A mobile client, comprising:
a processor; a requesting component configured to send, from the mobile client, a request to a server for audio signals representing at least a portion of a document, the at least portion of the document including textual information, the audio signals including a result of transcoding the textual information, the request including capability information associated with capabilities of the mobile client for audio presentation; a receiving component configured to receive, at the mobile client, at least a portion of the audio signals from the server; and a controller configured to control presentation of the at least portion of the audio signals.