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Apparatus and method for electronically generating a spoken message

US6052664A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. · BE

Inventors

Bert Van Coile · Brugge, BE
Stefaan Willems · Sint-Andries, BE
Steven Leys · Drongen, BE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 15, 1997
Grant date	Apr 18, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 15, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG10L13/04
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention describes an apparatus and method for generating phonetico-prosodic parameters of a predetermined message starting from a source message. The predetermined message comprises carriers and phrases. The phonetico-prosodic parameters of the carriers and the phrases are stored in a memory after having been generated off-line. The invention also comprises an apparatus and method for electronically generating a spoken message starting from phonetico-prosodic parameters, stored in said memory. The carriers comprise fixed parts and open slots filled with arguments. The phonetico-prosodic parameters of the arguments to be filled in in the open slots are generated at run time.

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