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System and method for distributed voice models across cloud and device for embedded text-to-speech

US9761218B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. · US

Inventors

Benjamin J. Stern · Morristown, US
Mark Charles Beutnagel · Mendham, US
Alistair D. Conkie · San Jose, US
Horst J. Schroeter · New Providence, US
Amanda Stent · Chatham, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 30, 2015
Grant date	Sep 12, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 30, 2035

Classification

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

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for intelligent caching of concatenative speech units for use in speech synthesis. A system configured to practice the method can identify, in a local cache of text-to-speech units for a text-to-speech voice an absent text-to-speech unit which is not in the local cache. The system can request from a server the absent text-to-speech unit. The system can then synthesize speech using the text-to-speech units and a received text-to-speech unit from the server.

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