Synthesis by generation and concatenation of multi-form segments
US8321222B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 14, 2007 |
| Grant date | Nov 27, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 6, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L15/142
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A speech synthesis system and method is described. A speech segment database references speech segments having various different speech representational structures. A speech segment selector selects from the speech segment database a sequence of speech segment candidates corresponding to a target text. A speech segment sequencer generates from the speech segment candidates sequenced speech segments corresponding to the target text. A speech segment synthesizer combines the selected sequenced speech segments to produce a synthesized speech signal output corresponding to the target text.
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