Alcatel

Alcatel Lucent

Jürgen Sienel

Dieter Kopp

Stefan Wahl

Markus Bauer

Karsten Oberle

Peter Domschitz

Marcus Kessler

Ulf Knoblich

Markus G Bauer

Roberto Schumann

Michael Steinbrenner

Peter Kopp

In a method of generating speech from text the speech segments necessary to put together the text to be output as speech by a terminal are determined; it is checked, which speech segments are already present in the terminal and which ones need to be transmitted from a server to the terminal; the segments to be transmitted to the terminal are indexed; the speech segments and the indices of segments to be output at the terminal are transmitted; an index sequence of speech segments to be put together to form the speech to be output is transmitted; and the segments are concatenated according to the index sequence. This method allows to realize a distributed speech synthesis system requiring only a low transmission capacity, a small memory and low computational power in the terminal.

Method of generating speech from text in a client/server architecture

Telecommunication systems including a terminal, a switch and on Internet/Intranet having a memory for storing information blocks at locations defined by addresses, can be made more user-friendly by introducing a detector for detecting speech-recognition/non-speech recognition related parts in control signals originating from the terminal and defining the addresses or n response signals sent from memory to terminal and including said information blocks. A processor is coupled to the detector for routing, in dependence on the detection, routing (parts of) the signals to a server for either conversion of (parts of) the signals or for information purposes.

Telecommunication system, and switch, and server, and method

In telecommunication systems including a terminal and a speech recognizer for vocal commanding, an indication signal originating from the terminal is detected, e.g., a telephone number dialed or a key signal or a vocal signal, or originating from an application located in the terminal or elsewhere in the network and in dependence of the indication signal a capacity parameter for the vocal commanding is adjusted, whereby a flexible capacity parameter is created for adjusting the available bandwidth between terminal and speech recognizer and/or for adjusting a processor capacity of terminal and/or speech recognizer, e.g., a sampling rate or a noise reduction being deactivated, as a result of which name dialing, command and control, and dictation can be done with the highest efficiency.

Telecommunication system, speech recognizer, and terminal, and method for adjusting capacity for vocal commanding

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