Method, device and system for generating segment durations in a text-to-speech system
US5950162A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 30, 1996 |
| Grant date | Sep 7, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 30, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L13/08
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention teaches a method (400), device and system (300) utilizing at least one of: mapping a sequence of phones to a sequence of articulatory features and utilizing prominence and boundary information, in addition to a predetermined set of rules for type, phonetic context, syntactic and prosodic context for phones to provide provide a system that generates segment durations efficiently with a small training set.
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