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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Mahesh Babu Sabbavarapu, Seattle, WA (US);

Ty Loren Carlson, Redmond, WA (US);

Vijayabaskar Gangadaran, Issaquah, WA (US);

Assignee:

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G06F 15/02 (2006.01); G09B 5/06 (2006.01); G09B 21/00 (2006.01); G10L 13/04 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G06F 15/0291 (2013.01); G09B 5/06 (2013.01); G09B 21/006 (2013.01); G10L 13/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for performing text-to-speech (TTS) processing of textual works, such a literary works. The system and method process text of these works and determine offsets corresponding to one or more of chapters, paragraphs, sentences, words, section of dialogs, sections of other context. Using these offsets, the system and method determine which portion and how much of a work to process using TTS processing at a time to produce a high quality audio output. This audio output may then be sent to a user device to allow the user device to play the audio output of the TTS processing.


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