Variable-depth audio presentation of textual information

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9431004
APP PUB NO 20150066510A1
SERIAL NO

14019102

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A respective sequence of tracks of Internet content of common subject matter is queued to each of a plurality of stations, where each of the tracks of Internet content resides on a respective Internet resource in textual form. In response to receiving a sample input, snippets of each of multiple tracks queued to a selected station among the plurality of stations is transmitted for audible presentation as synthesized human speech, where each of the snippets includes only a subset of a corresponding track. Thereafter, one or more complete tracks among the multiple tracks for which snippets were previously transmitted are transmitted for audio presentation as synthesized human speech.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bohrer, Patrick J Cedar Park, US 27 272
Kistler, Michael D Austin, US 25 315
Rajamony, Ramakrishnan Austin, US 126 3252
Stephenson, Mark W Austin, US 7 89

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