Patent SG-11201900484V-A (SG)
Title: A system and method for multilingual conversion of text data to speech data
Inventor: BANGARAMBANDI SUDHIR
IPC: G10L13/08
Filed: 2017-07-21
Abstract: officiallyib Remibtie nt India •i tS1' . . Bharat GaaareWaa) 1 \" ..4 M is kiu. IL is aft Lmg ,, by 3.11 . 3, the must ,onutry over I. • , onle) and most pop,: wodd. Eiound,i by LIMIE (PI the south, t Sea on the south-west, and ffi 13cn9ai0L1 the WArth-cast, shares land borders with P. IC the west;M C inx.1111Atni.o the NMI Myanmar a3umia) and Bangladesh to the In Mu Indian Oman. India is itt W O 20 18/0 15 9 27 Al (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (43) International Publication Date 25 January 2018 (25.01.2018) W I PO I PCT o moi oio n °nolo III m OH cimio Imo oimIE (10) International Publication Number WO 2018/015927 Al 100 (51) International Patent Classification: G10L 13/08 (2006.01) GOOF 3/048 (2006.01) GOOF 17/28 (2006.01) (21) International Application Number: PCT/IB2017/054413 (22) International Filing Date: 21 July 2017 (21.07.2017) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (30) Priority Data: 10201606009X 21 July 2016 (21.07.2016) SG (71) Applicant: OSLABS PTE. LTD. [SG/SG]; 30 Cecil Street, #10-05 Prudential Tower, Singapore 049712 (SG). (72) Inventors: BANGARAMBANDI, Sudhir; 202, Decor, Shastri Nagar, Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400053 (IN). MOTILAL DONGRE, Akash; 505, Town Center 1, Andheri Kurla Road, Sakinaka, Andheri (E), Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400059 (IN). (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JO, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). Declarations under Rule 4.17: — of inventorship (Rule 4.17(iv)) Published: with international search report (Art. 21(3)) before the expiration of the time limit for amending the claims and to be republished in the event of receipt of amendments (Rule 48.2(h)) (54) Title: A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTILINGUAL CONVERSION OF TEXT DATA TO SPEECH DATA (57) : The present invention provides a system and method for converting text data into speech data. Initially, the system enables a user to select a language from a plurality of languages supported by the operating system (OS) of a computing device. Further, on selecting and copying any text data, the system provides the user with op- tions to listen to an audio output of the text data. The user is provided with options to listen to text data in either English or the selected language, when the language of the text data is one among the plurality of languages supported by the OS. Further, the 114a user is provided with options to listen to text data in English, for the text data in any language. Once the user selects the option, the system converts the text data to speech data. The speech data is provided as the audio output to the user. 114b 1 1 4c 0 FIG. 1B