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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:
Feb. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejon-Shi, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704260 ; 704275 ; 704276 ; 704278 ; 704707 ; 704515 ; 704345 ; 704302 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a text-to-speech conversion system (TTS) for interlocking with multimedia and a method for organizing input data of the TTS which can enhance the natural of synthesized speech and accomplish the synchronization of multimedia with TTS by defining additional prosody information, the information required to interlock TTS with multimedia, and interface between these information and TTS for use in the production of the synthesized speech.