Patent ID: 6873952

Claim:
A method of rendering an audio signal comprising: identifying a first word; identifying a first phoneme corresponding to said first word; based on said first phoneme, selecting a first voice segment of a plurality of stored and pre-recorded voice segments wherein said first voice segment corresponds to said first phoneme, wherein each of said plurality of stored and pre-recorded voice segments represents a respective audible rendition of a same word that was recorded from a respective utterance in which a respective phoneme is uttered just after said respective audible rendition of said same word; playing said first voice segment followed by an audible representation of said first word; identifying a second word; identifying a second phoneme corresponding to said second word; based on said second phoneme, selecting a second voice segment of said plurality of stored and pre-recorded voice segments wherein said second voice segment corresponds to said second phoneme; and playing said second voice segment followed by an audible representation of said second word.