Patent ID: 8311830

Claim:
A system for building and managing a customized voice of a client for a target, comprising: 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; means for 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; means for storing said client recording on said server; means for setting up said client recording on said server to build a talking voice using 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; means for hand-correcting said data file to improve said data file wherein annotations, pitch marks, and text processing can be corrected by said service provider; means for allowing said client to 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; and, means for deploying said customized voice 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 customized voice from said voice database to any online environment.