(19)
(11) EP 2 144 227 B8

(12) CORRECTED EUROPEAN PATENT SPECIFICATION
Note: Bibliography reflects the latest situation

(15) Correction information:
Corrected version no 1 (W1 B1)

(48) Corrigendum issued on:
23.06.2010 Bulletin 2010/25

(45) Mention of the grant of the patent:
24.02.2010 Bulletin 2010/08

(21) Application number: 08160236.9

(22) Date of filing: 11.07.2008
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
G10L 13/08(2006.01)
G09B 21/00(2006.01)
 H04L 12/58(2006.01)

(54)

Facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a username or a network address containing a username

Erleichterung der Umwandlung eines Benutzernamens oder einer Netzwerkadresse mit einem Benutzernamen von Text in Sprache

Conversion texte-parole facilitée d'un nom d'utilisateur ou d'une adresse réseau contenant un nom d'utilisateur

(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL BA MK RS

(43) Date of publication of application:
13.01.2010 Bulletin 2010/02

(73) Proprietor: Research In Motion Limited
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3W8 (CA)

(72) Inventors:
  • Bells, Matthew
    Waterloo, Ontario N2L 6M2 (CA)
  • Lhotak, Jennifer Elizabeth
    Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2R7 (CA)
  • Nanni, Michael Angelo
    Brampton, Ontario L6R 2K2 (CA)

(74) Representative: MERH-IP Matias Erny Reichl Hoffmann 
Paul-Heyse-Strasse 29
80336 München
80336 München (DE)


(56) References cited: : 
US-A1- 2003 023 443
 US-A1- 2006 116 879
   
  • SPROAT R ET AL: "Emu: an e-mail preprocessor for text-to-speech" MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING, 1998 IEEE SECOND WORKSHOP ON REDONDO BEACH, CA, USA 7-9 DEC. 1998, PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA,IEEE, US, 7 December 1998 (1998-12-07), pages 239-244, XP010318317 ISBN: 978-0-7803-4919-3
   
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