Lauren L'Esperance - Arlington MA, US Alan Schell - Hopkinton MA, US Johan Smolders - Brugge, BE Erin Hemenway - Somerville MA, US Piet Verhoeve - Menen, BE Eric Niblack - Norwood MA, US Mark Goslin - Chelmsford MA, US
International Classification:
G10L013/08
US Classification:
704/260000
Abstract:
A handheld electronic device such as a personal digital assistant (PDA) has multiple application processes. A speech recognition process takes input speech from a user and produces a recognition output representative of the input speech. A text-to-speech process takes output text and produces a representative speech output. A speech manager interface allows the speech recognition process and the text-to-speech process to be accessed by other application processes.