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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:
Jul. 11, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Inventec Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G10L / ; G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704-1 ; 704258 ;
Abstract
A method of synthesizing pronunciation transcriptions for English sentence patterns/words through a computer, including the step of searching out matching rules sign for every individual letter or letter series from a pronunciation rules chart set in the computer subject to the location of every individual letter or letter series in the word and its relationship with the neighbor letters or letter series, the step of searching out the corresponding IPA pronunciation symbols for every individual letter of the word from a pronunciation rules data bank set in the computer, and the step of synthesizing the pronunciation symbols for the individual letters of the word into a pronunciation transcription.