Patent 7451087 was granted and assigned to Qwest on November, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for converting text to concatenated voice by utilizing a digital voice library and a set of playback rules is provided. The method includes receiving and expanding text data to form a sequence of text and pseudo words. The sequence of text and pseudo words is converted into a sequence of speech items, and the sequence of speech items is converted into a sequence of voice recordings. The method includes generating voice data on the sequence of voice recordings by concatenating adjacent recordings in the sequence of voice recordings.