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Process for evaluating speech quality in speech synthesis

US5664050A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 21, 1996
Grant dateSep 2, 1997
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Expiry dateMar 21, 2016

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L15/26
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to a process for evaluating speech quality in speech synthesizers with the aid of a speech recognition system. The recognition system is programmed using a number of persons. It then receives synthetic or natural speech from speech synthesizers or persons respectively, displaying differing speech quality. The speech recognition system determines a level of recognition for each received speech quality. In order to evaluate the speech quality in a speech synthesizer, speech is received from the synthesizer by the speech recognition system, is allocated a level of recognition and is ranked in comparison to the levels of recognition for previously received speech.

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