Cerence Operating Company

Benjamin Vincent Marcel Picart

Corinne Bos-Plachez

Martine Marguerite Staessen

Athos Toniolo

Vito Quinci

Alina Lenhardt

A method for synthesizing speech from a textual input includes receiving the textual input, the textual input including native words in a native language and foreign words in a foreign language, and processing the textual input to determine a phonetic representation of the textual input. The processing includes determining a native phonetic representation of the of the native words, and determining a nativized phonetic representation of the foreign words. Determining the nativized phonetic representation includes forming a foreign phonetic representation of the foreign words using a foreign phoneme set, and mapping the foreign phonetic representation to the nativized phonetic representation according to a model of a native speaker's pronunciation of foreign words.

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Merelbeke, Belgium

Benjamin Vincent Marcel Picart