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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Xuedong D Huang, Redmond, WA (US);
James L Adcock, Bellevue, WA (US);
John A Goldsmith, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Prosodic databases hold fundamental frequency templates for use in a speech synthesis system. Prosodic database templates may hold fundamental frequency values for syllables in a given sentence. These fundamental frequency values may be applied in synthesizing a sentence of speech. The templates are indexed by tonal pattern markings. A predicted tonal marking pattern is generated for each sentence of text that is to be synthesized, and this predicted pattern of tonal markings is used to locate a best-matching template. The templates are derived by calculating fundamental frequencies on a pursuable basis for sentences that are spoken by a human trainer for a given unlabeled corpus.