Patent ID: 7761300

Claim:
A system for communicating instructions of an activity to a person, the system comprising: a speaker; and a processor operative to receive a text stream having text chunks, each text chunk being a written representation of an instruction of an action of an activity to be performed by a person and including a word with an associated numeric value which are indicative of timing information defining an amount of time in which the activity action corresponding to the text chunk is to be performed; wherein the processor converts the text chunks to speech and extracts the timing information from the text chunks to determine for each text chunk the amount of time in which the activity action corresponding to the text chunk is to be performed; wherein the processor audibly speaks via the speaker one of the text chunks such that the activity action instruction represented by the one of the text chunks is audibly spoken via the speaker to the person; wherein upon the activity action instruction represented by the one of the text chunks being audibly spoken, the processor waits for the amount of time in which the activity action corresponding to the one of the text chunks is to be performed; wherein upon the amount of time in which the activity action corresponding to the one of the text chunks is to be performed has expired, the processor audibly speaks via the speaker a next one of the text chunks such that the activity action instruction represented by the next one of the text chunks is audibly spoken via the speaker to the person.