SPEECH SYSTEM

摘要

A system for generating an audio message over a communications network (4) that is at least partly in a voice representative of a character generally recognisable to a user. Either a voice message or text based message may be used to construct the audio message. Specific recordings of well known characters is stored in a storage means (14, 213) and background sound effects can be inserted into the audio message which are stored in database (14, 215). The audio message is constructed by any one of the processing means (12, 212, 214) and transmitted to a recipient for play back on a processing terminal.