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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2023
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jun Su, Beijing, CN;
Yang Liang, Beijing, CN;
Terry James Hoffman, Austin, TX (US);
Su Liu, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for providing a repository of audio files having pronunciations for text strings to provide to a speech synthesizer. The repository has data structures for text strings in documents. A data structure for a text string indicates at least one attribute of a presentation of the text string in the document and at least one audio file providing at least one audio pronunciation of the text string. A search text string and a search attribute are received from the speech synthesizer. A determination is made of a data structure in the repository including a text string and an attribute matching the search text string and the search attribute, respectively. An audio file, indicated in the determined data structure, is returned to the speech synthesizer to output for the search text string in a document being processed by the speech synthesizer.