(19)
(11) EP 1 111 825 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
14.07.2004 Bulletin 2004/29

(43) Date of publication A2:
27.06.2001 Bulletin 2001/26

(21) Application number: 00250348.0

(22) Date of filing: 24.10.2000
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7H04H 7/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 26.10.1999 JP 30468499

(71) Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
Tokyo (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Nihei, Katsumi
    Tokyo (JP)

(74) Representative: Patentanwälte Wenzel & Kalkoff 
Grubesallee 26
22143 Hamburg
22143 Hamburg (DE)

   


(54) Method and apparatus for inserting advertising messages into an audio channel


(57) The present invention comprises an advertising voice database (102) which stores the advertising voice data (101) received, an advertising voice extraction part (103) which extracts the advertising voice data (101) from the advertising voice database, a voice synthesizing part (104) which synthesizes a voice signal by inserting the advertising voice data extracted in the advertising voice extraction part (103) into the main voice data (100) received, and a voice outputting part (105) which outputs the voice signal synthesized in the voice synthesizing part (104), and according to advertisement inserting points which are added to the main voice data, inserts the advertising voice data into the positions in the main voice data designated by the advertisement inserting points, and outputs the voice signal after its volume is adjusted.







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