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A name and address processor for processing text contained within an existing database for subsequent text-to-speech synthesis. The processor receives as input a listing contained within a textual source database, intelligently recognizes any fields contained within the textual source, normalizes th

A name and address processor for processing text contained within an existing database for subsequent text-to-speech synthesis. The processor receives as input a listing contained within a textual source database, intelligently recognizes any fields contained within the textual source, normalizes the text contained within the fields, detects acronyms contained within the fields, identifies and marks any particular textual entries as necessitating spelling and then formats the processed text for output to a text-to-speech synthesizer. The processor processes in parallel all name field entries, address field entries, and locality field entries using tables of rules as well as both regular expression and non-regular expression methodologies.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A method for processing text contained within a database for subsequent synthesis by a text-to-speech synthesizer comprising the steps of:inputting a listing from a database containing the text to be processed;parsing the text into one or more distinct fields;processing in parallel

[ We claim:] [1.] A method for processing text contained within a database for subsequent synthesis by a text-to-speech synthesizer comprising the steps of:inputting a listing from a database containing the text to be processed;parsing the text into one or more distinct fields;processing in parallel and generating an output for each of the distinct fields wherein said parallel processing includes the steps of:i) normalizing the text contained within each of the fields utilizing both regular expressions to normalize the text and non-regular expressions to normalize the text;ii) detecting acronyms contained within the text;iii) identifying text which is to be spelled-out by the text-to-speech synthesizer; andcombining the output of each of the parallel processing steps into a single output, for presentation to the text-to-speech synthesizer.