Abstract: Methods and systems recommend a mutually-agreeable location to parties invited to a meeting. A method analyzes attributes of the meeting, attributes of the invited parties, and attributes of the various potential locations to prepare a list of recommended locations. To arrive at the list of recommended locations, the method may leverage all available attributes regarding the parties, the engagement type, and the potential locations, to create a value that represents a degree that a potential location correlates with the parties' attributes and meeting attributes. The set of recommended locations is sent to the invited parties. The method then determines, from party responses that each include a list of locations that are acceptable to that party, which of the recommended locations is agreed upon.

Abstract: Methods and systems recommend a mutually-agreeable location to parties invited to a meeting. A method analyzes attributes of the meeting, attributes of the invited parties, and attributes of the various potential locations to prepare a list of recommended locations. To arrive at the list of recommended locations, the method may leverage all available attributes regarding the parties, the engagement type, and the potential locations, to create a value that represents a degree that a potential location correlates with the parties' attributes and meeting attributes. The set of recommended locations is sent to the invited parties. The method then determines, from party responses that each include a list of locations that are acceptable to that party, which of the recommended locations is agreed upon.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for synthesizing concatenative speech by allocating speech segments based upon their frequency of access during speech synthesis and storing frequently used speech segments in memory where they can be easily and quickly accessed. Speech data is recorded in separate files from which individual speech units are identified. The method and system of the present invention analyzes the frequency of access of each speech unit during synthesis and uses this data to sort the speech units according to their frequency of access. Those speech units that are accessed more frequently than others are loaded into memory where they can be accessed quickly during subsequent speech synthesis. Other speech units that are not used as frequently can be stored on a data storage disk.

Abstract: In a text-to-speech system, a method of converting text-to-speech can include receiving a text input and comparing the received text input to at least one entry in a text-to-speech cache memory. Each entry in the text-to-speech cache memory can specify a corresponding spoken output. If the text input matches one of the entries in the text-to-speech cache memory, the cached speech output specified by the matching entry can be provided.

Abstract: In a text-to-speech system, a method of converting text-to-speech can include receiving a text input and comparing the received text input to at least one entry in a text-to-speech cache memory. Each entry in the text-to-speech cache memory can specify a corresponding spoken output. If the text input matches one of the entries in the text-to-speech cache memory, the cached speech output specified by the matching entry can be provided.