Distributed synthetic speech generation
US6510413B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 29, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jan 21, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 5, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M2201/60
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Text that is to be synthesized into human speech is first converted into an intermediate form representation that describe the acoustic-prosodic resolution of the spoken version of the text. The intermediate form can be generated manually, or by an intermediate form generation program at a server computer, and later downloaded to client computers at their request. The client computers synthesize the intermediate form representation to audio for their users using a relatively simple speech rendering program.
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