Nuance Communications, Inc.

Scansoft, Inc.

Justin Fackrell

Bert Van Coile

Peter Rutten

Geert Coorman

Mario De Bock

Andre Schenk

Jan DeMoortel

Filip Deprez

Steven Leys

Jan De Moortel

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

A method of prosody translation is given. A target input symbol sequence is provided, including a first set of speech prosody descriptors. An instance-based learning algorithm is applied to a corpus of speech unit descriptors to select an output symbol sequence representative of the target input symbol sequence and including a second set of speech prosody descriptors. The second set differs from the first set.

Corpus-based prosody translation system

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Ghent, Belgium

Justin Fackrell