Patent ID: 8380519

Claim:
A method of producing spoken voice prompts for telephony-based informational interaction, the method comprising: selecting text of one or more voice prompts for an intended telephony-based informational interaction dialog with a listener over a telephone system; for the text of the one or more voice prompts, determining words that receive one or more optimized speech parameters, based on a dialog context and meaning of the text of the one or more voice prompts, wherein the one or more optimized speech parameters are selected based on a dialog context of the one or more spoken voice prompts for the intended telephony-based informational interaction dialog with the listener; recording the one or more voice prompts, producing one or more spoken voice prompts that include the one or more optimized speech parameters; and conveying the one or more spoken voice prompts to a listener over a telephone system for the intended telephony-based informational interaction.