System and method for pruning redundant units in a speech synthesis process
US9520123B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 19, 2015 |
| Grant date | Dec 13, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 19, 2035 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L13/047
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for concatenative speech synthesis is provided. Embodiments may include accessing, using one or more computing devices, a plurality of speech synthesis units from a speech database and determining a similarity between the plurality of speech synthesis units. Embodiments may further include retrieving two or more speech synthesis units having the similarity and pruning at least one of the two or more speech synthesis units based upon, at least in part, the similarity.
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