Patent ID: 8954328
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method, comprising: providing by the computing device a user interface for user selection of a character from a plurality of characters and a user selection of a mood for the character, from multiple preconfigured moods associated with the character, with the moods being instantiations of a voice model associated with the character, with each instantiation of the voice model having one or more attributes of the voice model pre-modified to provide corresponding moods for the character; receiving, by the computing device, a user selection of the character from the user interface and a user selection of the mood for the character, with the mood selected from the plural ones of the predefined moods; rendering on a display device associated with the computing device an electronic representation of text; associating by the computing device, the user selected character and user selected mood of the character to one or more groupings of words in the electronic representation of the text rendered on the display device; and generating, by the computing device, an audible output corresponding to the one or more groupings of words by applying text corresponding to the one or more groupings of words to a text to speech synthesizer using the instantiation of the voice model corresponding to the selected character and the selected mood.