Appeal No. 96-2992
Application 08/200,049
We find that Hashimoto does show an advance storage
means for storage of sentences and phrases in different
languages, means to type in the sentence or phrase desired to be
translated, means to select the language into which the phrase is
to be translated and the speakers for the synthesized translated
phrase [figure 1 and column 2, lines 15 to 21, column 6, lines 33
to 43]. It is not clear whether the advance storage in Hashimoto
was done from spoken words. Also, we note that the translated
words are synthesized for speech in Hashimoto, rather than
digitized. However, we find that Yamamoto teaches the concept of
digitally recording spoken words as well as reproducing speech
from the digitized recording which could be a foreign language
[column 2, lines 35 to 41 and column 3, lines 1 to 21]. We
conclude that it would have been obvious, to one of ordinary
skill in the art at the time of the invention, to use the
teaching of Yamamoto, to record the spoken words in digitized
form and to reproduce the digitally recorded words in a spoken
form, in Hashimoto as outlined in detail by the Examiner [answer,
pages 3 to 10].
With respect to the first argument that the suggested
combination would not work due to the size of the storage
capacity of Hashimoto and Yamamoto, we believe that it is not
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