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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
William M Fisher, Plano, TX (US);
Kathleen M Marshall, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
381 52 ;
Abstract
In a text to speech system, digital text ASCII is examined for syllable boundaries to help accent generation for speech synthesis, and hyphenation in word processing. Digital allophone code characters in the form of a byte string are compared with prestored rules. Byte string segments which may comprise consonant clusters, and left and right adjacent environments thereof are examined.