Appeal No. 96-2992
Application 08/200,049
this position by noting that it requires a great deal more
digital data storage capability to store speech in digital form
... than is found on the ROM chips used by Hashimoto [brief, page
14].
The Examiner, regarding the size of the memory storage,
responds that neither Hashimoto nor Yamamoto is limited to any
specific size for its storage capacity, and moreover, no
particular boundaries for the storage size are claimed [answer,
pages 11 to 14]. Regarding the absence of any teaching of a way
to combine the two systems, the Examiner responds that the
references [as applied in the suggested combination] rely on the
knowledge of those [of ordinary skill] in the art to complement
that which is disclosed therein, and a specific teaching does not
need to be shown by a reference [answer, pages 15 to 16]. With
respect to the "it is not obvious to want to combine them"
argument [brief, page 14], the Examiner asserts that digitizing
spoken sentences, [rather than using phonemes to create
sentences], for clearer reproduction is well known in the art,
and moreover the argument of " ...not obvious to want to
combine..." is speculative [answer, pages 14 to 15]. Moreover,
CD-ROMs are known for large storage of data [answer, page 17].
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