Communications system providing text-to-speech message conversion features using audio filter parameters and related methods
CA 2499003 C · Owner: Blackberry Limited · Inventors: May, Darrell Reginald; Gagne, Alain R.
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A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device and a wireless communications network for sending text messages thereto. More particularly the at least one mobile wireless communications device may include a wireless transceiver and a controller cooperating therewith for receiving text messages. The controller may be switchable between a normal message mode and an audio message mode. Also the at least one mobile wireless communications device may further include a user interface device connected to the controller for receiving at least one audio mode filter parameter from a user and an audio output connected to the controller. The controller when in …
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- Filed March 1, 2005 and granted August 21, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 1, 2025.
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