Patent ID: 8312492

Claim:
A method of providing media content, the method comprising: receiving media content from a content source at a set-top box device, wherein the media content includes video data having a first playback rate and audio data having the first playback rate, wherein a first audio pitch range is associated with the audio data at the first playback rate; processing the audio data to identify speech portions that include consonant portions; transforming the audio data via a non-linear transformation to produce modified audio data having a second playback rate, wherein transforming the audio data via the non-linear transformation includes applying a non-linear adjustment to the consonant portions of the speech portions identified in the audio data, wherein a second audio pitch range is associated with the modified audio data, and wherein the second audio pitch range is within the first audio pitch range; modifying the video data to produce modified video data having the second playback rate; synchronizing the modified audio data and the modified video data to produce modified media content having the second playback rate; storing, at a digital video recorder coupled to the set-top box device, the media content having the first playback rate and the modified media content having the second playback rate; during playback of the media content at the first playback rate, receiving a command at the set-top box device to change from the first playback rate to the second playback rate; and in response to receiving the command, retrieving the modified media content having the second playback rate from the digital video recorder of the set-top box device.