Patent ID: 6879957

Claim:
A method for producing a speech rendition of text comprising: parsing a sentence into punctuation and a plurality of words; comparing at least one word of the plurality of words to a list of pre-recorded words; in the event that the compared word is not on the list of pre-recorded words, determining whether the compared word includes at least one number, and audibly spelling the compared word out in the event that the compared word includes at least one number, in the event that the compared word is not on the list of pre-recorded words and does not include at least one number, dividing the compared word into a plurality of diphones, combining sound files corresponding to the plurality of diphones, and playing the combined sound files; in the event that the compared word is on the list of pre-recorded words, playing a sound file corresponding to the compared word, the sound file being independent of the sound files corresponding to the plurality of diphones.