Patent ID: 8086457

Claim:
A method for building and managing a customized voice of a client for a target, comprising the steps of: designing a set of prompts for collection from said client, said prompts being selectable from both an analysis tool and by the client's own choosing, wherein a number of sentences of the client's own choosing can be added to said set of prompts for selection by said client to capture voice characteristics unique to said client; delivering said prompts to said client over a network to allow said client to save a client recording on a server of a service provider; retrieving and storing said client recording on said server; setting up said client recording on said server to build a talking voice using automated text-to-speech synthesis tools, wherein said talking voice is a data file built into a voice database which said client may retrieve over said network and continuously access; hand-correcting said data file to improve said data file wherein annotations, pitch marks, and text processing can be corrected by said service provider; providing a graphical interface to allow said client to also refine said data file to improve said talking voice and customize parameter and configuration settings, wherein said client can add or edit custom pronunciation of specific words, thereby forming a customized voice database; and, deploying said customized voice database to a target, wherein said target is said service provider, a customer of said service provider, or an alternative platform managed by said client such that said client can apply said talking voice from said customized voice database to any online environment.