Patent ID: 6466653
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: G10L,H04M

Abstract:
A cordless telephone subscriber unit comprising:a cordless handset having an earpiece speaker and a loudspeaker; a cordless base station unit adapted to communicate radio frequency signals with the cordless handset and including: a communication interface adapted to receive a caller identification signal, including at least one of a name and a telephone number of a calling party, from a telephone network during an incoming call; a caller identification device coupled to the communication interface and adapted to detect the caller identification signal; a pre-processor coupled to the caller identification device and adapted to convert the caller identification signal from a first data format to a second data format; a text-to-speech synthesizer coupled to the pre-processor and adapted to convert the caller identification signal to a synthesized speech signal; a loudspeaker coupled to the text-to-speech synthesizer and adapted to convert the synthesized speech signal into an audible speech signal; and a controller coupled to the communication interface, the caller identification device, the speech synthesizer and the loudspeaker and adapted to cause at least one of the name and the telephone number of the calling party to be announced as an audible speech signal in real time during the incoming call over one of the loudspeaker of the cordless base station, the loudspeaker of the cordless handset and the earpiece speaker of the cordless handset.