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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2019
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method () for representing an intended prosody in synthesized speech includes receiving a text utterance () having at least one word (), and selecting an utterance embedding () for the text utterance. Each word in the text utterance has at least one syllable () and each syllable has at least one phoneme (). The utterance embedding represents an intended prosody. For each syllable, using the selected utterance embedding, the method also includes: predicting a duration () of the syllable by decoding a prosodic syllable embedding () for the syllable based on attention by an attention mechanism () to linguistic features () of each phoneme of the syllable and generating a plurality of fixed-length predicted frames () based on the predicted duration for the syllable.