Patent Document ID: 8423366
Application ID: 13552484

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a system, a voicemail associated with a user; transcribing, by the system, the voicemail into text that includes a group of words; storing, by the system, an association between a portion of each respective word from the group of words and a corresponding portion of the voicemail, wherein the corresponding portion of the voicemail is the portion of the voicemail from which the portion of the respective word was transcribed; generating, by the system, a voiceprint from the voicemail; comparing, by the system, the voiceprint to voiceprints generated from previously received voicemails; identifying, by the system, based at least in part on the comparison and a portion of the voiceprints generated from the previously received voicemails, at least one matching voiceprint; selecting, by the system, based at least in part on the at least one matching voiceprint, a speech synthesis voice associated with the user; and determining, by the system, a modification to the speech synthesis voice associated with the user based at least in part on the association between the portion of each respective word from the group of words and the corresponding portion of the voicemail.

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Claim 16:
16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the voicemail is a first voicemail, and wherein the group of words is a first group of words, the method further comprising: receiving, by the system, a second voicemail associated with the user; transcribing, by the system, the second voicemail into text that includes a second group of words; storing, by the system, an association between each word of the second group of words and a corresponding portion of the second voicemail, wherein a word of the second group of words is associated with a portion of the second voicemail, wherein a word of the first group of words is associated with a portion of the first voicemail, wherein the portion of the first voicemail and the portion of the second voicemail are the same, and wherein the word of the first group of words is different than the word of the second group of words; updating, by the system, the stored association between the word of the first group of words and the portion of the first voicemail, based at least in part on the stored association between the word of the second group of words and the portion of the second voicemail; and modifying, by the system, the speech synthesis voice associated with the user based at least in part on the association.