Patent ID: 8145490
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a receiver component configured to receive a text file and a request to predict a resultant attribute of an audio file to be converted from the text file by a text-to-speech converter component; a determining component configured to determine a file type associated with the received text file and a size of the received text file; an identifying component configured to identify an attribute associated with the determined file type; and a predicting component configured to predict, using the identified attribute and the size of the received text file, the resultant attribute of the audio file to be converted from the text file by the text-to-speech converter component; wherein the receiver component, the determining component, the identifying component and the predicting component each is implemented via a component selected from the group consisting of a programmed processor and a logic apparatus; wherein the resultant attribute comprises a size of the audio file.