Patent Document ID: 6035273
Application ID: 08673242

Base Claim:
1. A compressed voice communication system, comprising: at least two customer premise devices connected by a transmission media for allowing signals to be transmitted between said customer premise devices; each of said at least two customer premise devices comprising: means for receiving speech from an individual; a speech profile defining coefficients of speech for the individual in a mathematical model; means for detecting changes in the individual's speech, said changes being defined by at least one of said coefficients of speech; means for converting said speech to text which operates in response to means for detecting to add hypertext characters to said text indicative of said detected changes; means for transmitting said text from one customer premise device over said transmission media for receipt at another one of the at least two customer premise devices; means for converting said text received from said transmission media to speech; and means for delivering speech to the individual.

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Claim 5:
5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said means for receiving speech from an individual includes a microphone for converting the speech into an electrical signal.