Patent ID: 8126716

Claim:
A method for use with a voice application that is capable of playing back user prompts as both recorded audio and text-to-speech generated audio, the method comprising: executing the voice application; during the executing, for each user prompt that is to be played back as audio, determining whether corresponding recorded audio is available for the user prompt; if it is determined that there is corresponding recorded audio available, playing the corresponding recorded audio; and if it is determined that there is no corresponding recorded audio available for the user prompt, playing the user prompt as TTS-generated audio using a text-to-speech (TTS) engine; and in response to determining, during the executing, that there is no corresponding recorded audio available for the user prompt: capturing text of the user prompt as captured text; and forwarding the captured text to a prompt collecting tool for adding the captured text to a set of prompt texts for which recorded audio is to be recorded.