TEXT TO SPEECH DEVICE AND METHOD Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC G01C21/36 G10L13/00 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: navigation device has apparatus for digital processing of sounds and audible transmission thereof, memory which stores multiple data in form of text pointers and pre-recorded sounds, apparatus for transmitting data between the processor of the device and memory, an operating system for controlling processing and flow of data between the processor and memory, and determining whether said sounds are reproduced in an audible manner through repeated determination of physical conditions comparable with reference values built into the memory, so that satisfaction of the condition causes the device to generate a sound through the pre-recorded sounds stored on the device, or a sound which is digitally presented by a text to speech (TTS) program component by transmitting a text point to it, which corresponds to an event, a combination of the above said, wherein when determining the event which requires reproduction of sound by the TTS program component, the operating system invokes a set of options selected or marked by the device user during its configuration in order to determine the extent to which this event can be audibly indicated.

EFFECT: possibility of audible indication during enroute navigation of user-predefined information.

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