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Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 1984

Filed:

Nov. 19, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:

Frank C Pirz, Madison, NJ (US);

Lawrence R Rabiner, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);

Jay G Wilpon, Warren, NJ (US);

Assignee:

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3645135 ; 381 41 ;
Abstract

A system for generating speech pattern templates for use with either speech recognition or speech synthesis. Reference demisyllable templates are first generated from a reference first speaker using both manual and automatic analysis. The analysis for a second speaker is simplified and automated by comparing with the first speaker's templates. The second speaker speaks the same words at a rate time-warped to match the first speakers rate and template. We define a demisyllable as each of the two halves of a syllable, assuming a syllable starts and ends with a noisy consonant, and the syllable is split at its vowel center, thereby simplifying concatenation and comparison. Key features of the invention include generating a set of signals representative of the time alignment between the first and second speaker's templates, and the time-of-occurence boundaries of each syllable in a word.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Pirz, Frank. (1984). Method and apparatus for generating speech pattern templates (U.S. Patent No. 4454586). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4454586

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