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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2012
Lessac Technologies, Inc., West Newton, MA (US);
Reiner Wilhelms-Tricarico, Belchertown, MA (US);
Brian Mottershead, Carlisle, MA (US);
Rattima Nitisaroj, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Michael Baumgartner, Sachse, TX (US);
John B. Reichenbach, Newton, MA (US);
Gary A. Marple, Sarasota, FL (US);
LESSAC TECHNOLOGIES, INC., West Newton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system-effected method for synthesizing speech, or recognizing speech including a sequence of expressive speech utterances. The method can be computer-implemented and can include system-generating a speech signal embodying the sequence of expressive speech utterances. Other possible steps include: system-marking the speech signal with a pitch marker indicating a pitch change at or near a first zero amplitude crossing point of the speech signal following a glottal closure point, at a minimum, at a maximum or at another location; system marking the speech signal with at least one further pitch marker; system-aligning a sequence of prosodically marked text with the pitch-marked speech signal according to the pitch markers; and system outputting the aligned text or the aligned speech signal, respectively. Computerized systems, and stored programs for implementing method embodiments of the invention are also disclosed.