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Autonomous system and method for creating readable scripts for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) corpora

US8155963B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 17, 2006
Grant dateApr 10, 2012
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Expiry dateFeb 21, 2029

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

Abstract

A method (and system) which autonomously generates a cohesive script from a text database for creating a speech corpus for concatenative text-to-speech, and more particularly, which generates cohesive scripts having fluency and natural prosody that can be used to generate compact text-to-speech recordings that cover a plurality of phonetic events.

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