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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Kevin Chad Larson, Seattle, WA (US);
Tanya Matskewich, Redmond, WA (US);
Gregory Carl Hitchcock, Woodinville, WA (US);
Michael Tholfsen, Newcastle, WA (US);
Guillaume Simonnet, Bellevue, WA (US);
Viktoryia Akulich, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicholas Kibre, Redwood City, CA (US);
Christina Chen Campbell, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for mapping hyperarticulated sounds to text units are presented. A plurality of textual units may be received. The plurality of textual units may be processed with a natural language processing engine. A sentence structure for the plurality of textual units may be identified, wherein the sentence structure comprises a plurality of words. The plurality of words may be processed with a text-to-speech engine. A text-to-speech output comprising a plurality of pronunciations may be identified, wherein each of the plurality of pronunciations corresponds to a syllabic unit of one of the plurality of words. A hyperarticulated vowel sound may be mapped to each syllabic unit from the text-to-speech output. A pronunciation instruction corresponding to each hyperarticulated vowel sound may be caused to be surfaced.