Patent ID: 6708153
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
A method of setting the voice personality of a voice service site, wherein a set of voice personality characterisers associated with a previously-visited voice service site is used in presenting the voice output of a currently-visited voice service site, wherein the voice service sites operate by serving, from voice page servers, voice pages in the form of text with embedded voice markup tags to a voice browser, the voice browser interpreting these pages and carrying out speech recognition of user voice input, text to speech conversion to generate voice output, and dialog management; the voice browser being disposed between voice page servers and the user and managing which set of voice personality characterisers is used during the text to speech conversion and wherein the set of voice personality characterisers has associated permissions regarding use of the set for presenting the voice output of voice sites; the voice browser reading and complying with these permissions.