Patent · US Expired

Corpus-based prosody translation system

US7069216B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Nuance Communications, Inc. · US

Inventors

Jan DeMoortel · Mouscron, BE
Justin Fackrell · Evergem, BE
Peter Rutten · Plainfield, US
Bert Van Coile · Brugge, BE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 1, 2001
Grant date	Jun 27, 2006
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 2, 2023

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG10L13/10
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method of prosody translation is given. A target input symbol sequence is provided, including a first set of speech prosody descriptors. An instance-based learning algorithm is applied to a corpus of speech unit descriptors to select an output symbol sequence representative of the target input symbol sequence and including a second set of speech prosody descriptors. The second set differs from the first set.

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