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Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Craig M. Trim, Ventura, CA (US);

John M. Ganci, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);

Aaron K. Baughman, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Veronica Wyatt, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 15/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 15/142 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, an input phrase from a text generator; determining, by the computing device, a complexity level for an audience; generating, by the computing device, a plurality of target phrases including a modification of the input phrase; generating, by the computing device, respective readability scores for each of the plurality of target phrases; mapping, by the computing device, the plurality of the target phrases to the target audience complexity level to select a particular target phrase of the plurality of the target phrases; and outputting, by the computing device, the selected particular target phrase to a text-to-speech (T2S) component to cause the T2S component to output the selected particular target phrase as audible speech.


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