Method and apparatus for identifying prosodic word boundaries
US7263488B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 7, 2001 |
| Grant date | Aug 28, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 6, 2024 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L13/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and computer-readable medium are provided that identify prosodic word boundaries for a text. If the text is unsegmented, it is first segmented into lexical words. The lexical words are then converted into prosodic words using an annotated lexicon to divide large lexical words into smaller words and a model to combine the lexical words and/or the smaller words into larger prosodic words. The boundaries of the resulting prosodic words are used to set the prosody for the synthesized speech.
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