Text-to speech conversion system for synchronizing between synthesized speech and a moving picture in a multimedia environment and a method of the same
USRE42647E1 · kind E1 · reissue
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| Filing date | Sep 30, 2002 |
| Grant date | Aug 23, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 30, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
The present invention provides a text-to-speech conversion system (TTS) for interlocking synchronizing with multimedia and a method for organizing input data of the TTS which can enhance the natural naturalness of synthesized speech and accomplish the synchronization of multimedia with TTS by defining additional prosody information, the information required to interlock synchronize TTS with multimedia, and interface between these this information and TTS for use in the production of the synthesized speech.
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