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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2018
Applicant:
Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Guang-Feng Deng, Taipei, TW;
Cheng-Hung Tsai, Tainan, TW;
Tsun Ku, Taipei, TW;
Zhi-Guo Zhu, Taipei, TW;
Han-Wen Liu, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Institute For Information Industry, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 13/02 (2013.01); H04M 1/72436 (2021.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/0335 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An audio playback device receives an instruction from a user to select a target voice model from a plurality of voice models and assigns the target voice model to a target character in a text. The audio playback device also transforms the text into a speech, and during the process of transforming the text into the speech, transforms sentences of the target character in the text into the speech of the target character according to the target voice model.