Patent Document ID: 5555343
Application ID: 08418872

Base Claim:
1. A text processor for a text-to-speech converter comprising: a parser for accepting a text stream, for parsing the text stream to detect an unspoken character having a first characteristic, an unspoken character having a second characteristic, and spoken characters, and for not altering the spoken characters in the text stream; a text generator, responsive to detection of an unspoken character having the first characteristic, for generating a pre-designated text sequence, and for replacing, in the text stream, said unspoken character having said first characteristic with said pre-designated text sequence; and a speech command generator, responsive to detection of an unspoken character having a second characteristic, for generating pre-designated speech commands.

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Claim 20:
20. A text processor according to claim 1, further comprising a text-to-speech interface which receives spoken text parsed by said parser, text generated by said text generator, and speech commands generated by said speech command generator.