Abstract: A method and apparatus for communicating data to a browsing session is disclosed In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a first information from a first browsing session in a proxy, the first information comprising a request for a webpage having at least one webpage element, transmitting a second information comprising a first wrapper distinct from the requested webpage, establishing a first communications session between the first wrapper and the proxy; and transmitting a third information to the first browser via the first communications session, the third information comprising at least one element based on the requested webpage element for rendering by the first browsing session via the first wrapper.

Abstract: In a speech synthesis technique used in a network (110, 115), a set of text words is accepted by a speech engine software function (210) in a client device (105). From the set of text words, an invalid subset of text words is determined for which the text words are not in a word synthesis dictionary of the client device. The invalid subset of text words is transmitted over the network to a server device (120), which generates a set of word pronunciations including at least a portion of the text words of the invalid subset of text words and pronunciations associated with each of the text words. The client device uses the pronunciations for speech synthesis and may store them in a local word synthesis dictionary (220) stored in a memory (150) of the client device.

Abstract: To address the need for a method and apparatus for preventing speech dropout in a low-latency text-to-speech system, a method and apparatus for preventing such speech dropout is described herein. In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention the rate of speech is allowed to vary based on an amount of data existing within the buffer. More particularly, as the buffer empties, the rate of speech slows, reducing the chances that the output buffer will empty.

Abstract: The present invention teaches a method (400), device and system (300) utilizing at least one of: mapping a sequence of phones to a sequence of articulatory features and utilizing prominence and boundary information, in addition to a predetermined set of rules for type, phonetic context, syntactic and prosodic context for phones to provide provide a system that generates segment durations efficiently with a small training set.

Abstract: A method (400), device and system (300) provide, in response to linguistic information, efficient generation of a parametric representation of speech using a neural network.

Abstract: A totally self-checking memory cell array apparatus (30) has an array (31) of memory cells (32) selectively addressed by row and column decoders (33, 35) which receive unidirectional error detecting code signals as address inputs (34, 36). Data, as a multiple bit data word (A, B, C.sub.1, C.sub.2), is stored in the array (31) in unidirectional error detecting code form. Cells in each row (1-8) of the array have two separate row select connection lines (45 and 45a) for coupling the cell to data and data complement (46, 46*) connections. Error detection circuits (44, 47) are provided which determine errors by comparing the data and data complement lines for each data bit read out of the array and for detecting when multiple bit data words read out of the array are not coded in a unidirectional error detecting code format.