Patent ID: 8229086
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A cellular telephone which silently generates and transmits audio signals to a distant telephone during a telephone conversation and which is adapted to receive voice generated audio signals from said distant telephone over a communication channel that carries said telephone conversation comprising: a memory for storing a plurality of pre-recorded audible records and a plurality of pre-stored text messages, wherein said pre-recorded audible records and said pre-stored text messages are selectable via a user input circuit of said cellular telephone; a text to speech module adapted to convert into audible messages: (1) one or more of said pre-stored text messages selected by a user; and (2) text messages manually typed into the telephone during the telephone conversation; a conversation module adapted to selectively transmit, during the conversation, to said distant telephone: (1) one or more of said pre-recorded audible records, and (2) one or more of said text to speech converted audible messages, both pre-stored and manually typed during the conversation; a testing mechanism enabling review of said text to speech converted audible messages before sending them; a synthesizer module adapted to generate audio message signals from source texts, which audio signals represent human speech of the source texts; and said synthesizer module is further adapted to silently generate, during a given conversation, second audio message signals from second source texts, which second source texts are input into a keyboard of the cellular telephone, by a user of the telephone, during the given conversation, and wherein said audio signals represent human speech of the second source texts and said conversation module is further adapted to transmit one or more of said second audio message signals during the given conversation, over a communication channel which carries the given conversation.