Patent ID: 8352270

Claim:
A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for enabling users to generate and optimize Text To Speech (TTS) prompts, the method comprising: receiving text to be converted to speech at a TTS engine; performing analysis on the text to be converted at a text analysis component for extracting individual words of the text to be converted; performing linguistical analysis on the individual words of the text to be converted at a linguistic analysis component for extracting phonemes; providing an interactive tool configured to: synthesize an initial prompt based on the phonemes of the text at a wave synthesizer; present the synthesized prompt along with the received text and a corresponding pronunciation using phonetic characters; provide a plurality of user interface controls for modifying prosody parameters of the synthesized prompt based on the received text, wherein at least a portion of the user interface controls are visually linked with the presented pronunciation; upon receiving an indication of completion from a user, enable the user to save the synthesized prompt; and providing the synthesized prompt to an application.