Nuance Communications, Inc.

Irider

Scansoft, Inc.

Jan De Moortel

Geert Coorman

Bert Van Coile

Mario De Bock

Vincent Pollet

Peter Rutten

Justin Fackrell

Stefaan Van Gerven

Filip Deprez

Steven Leys

Andre Schenk

Jean-François Simon

Frédéric Delahais

Thomas Rayer

A vehicle computing architecture includes an application layer a software virtualization layer, a hardware virtualization layer, and a hardware component layer. The application layer includes a plurality of virtual functional components each representing a virtual function. The software virtualization layer includes a command registry having virtual commands. The hardware virtualization layer includes mapping logic. The hardware component layer includes a plurality of physical nodes each being a virtual representation of a corresponding hardware component. The virtual functional components call a virtual command from the command registry. The hardware virtualization layer selects one of the physical nodes corresponding to the received virtual command and translates the received virtual command to a hardware command using the mapping logic, and communicates the hardware command to the selected physical node. The hardware component layer communicates the hardware command to the hardware component to perform the corresponding vehicle function.

Computing architecture for vehicle hardware and feature virtualization

A system and method generate synthesized speech through concatenation of speech segments that are derived from a large prosodically-rich corpus of speech segments including using an additional dictionary of speech segment identifier sequences.

Corpus-based speech synthesis based on segment recombination

A high quality speech synthesizer in various embodiments concatenates speech waveforms referenced by a large speech database. Speech quality is further improved by speech unit selection and concatenation smoothing.

Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms

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Kortrijk, Belgium

Jan De Moortel