| 摘要 |
<p>Communication Apparatus with Text-to-Speech Capability An enhanced message centre for a telephone network comprises a connection (21) to the Internet, a connection (22) to the PSTN, a PSTN interface unit (23) coupled to the connection (22) to the PSTN, a character recognition unit (24) coupled to receive an output of the PSTN interface unit (23), a language recognition unit (25) coupled to receive a text signal (26) and a writing system signal (27) from the character recognition unit (24) and e-mail text data from the Internet connection (21), a text-to-speech unit (28) coupled to receive a text signal (29) and a language signal (30) from the language recognition unit (25), and a storage unit (30) coupled to receive speech data from the text-to-speech unit (28) and an output of the PSTN interface unit (23). The storage unit (30) is provided with a link to a satellite mobile telephone system, illustrated by a SAN (4), a satellite (6) and a UT (7). A machine translation unit may also be provided. <IMAGE></p> |
