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Corpus-based speech synthesis based on segment recombination

US7567896B2 · kind B2 · utility

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30Claims

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Assignee

Nuance Communications, Inc. · US

Inventors

Geert Coorman · Kuurne, BE
Vincent Pollet · Astene, BE
Stefaan Van Gerven · Heverlee, BE
Mario De Bock · Oudenaarde, BE
Bert Van Coile · Brugge, BE
Jan De Moortel · Kortrijk, BE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 18, 2005
Grant date	Jul 28, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 2, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG10L13/07
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method generate synthesized speech through concatenation of speech segments that are derived from a large prosodically-rich corpus of speech segments including using an additional dictionary of speech segment identifier sequences.

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