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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael E. Manwaring, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);
Steven F. McDaniel, Provo, UT (US);
Kara Felix, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Melissa Wallentine, Springville, UT (US);
Starla Blackburn, American Fork, UT (US);
Assignee:
Fonix Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/306 ; G10L 1/308 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/306 ; G10L 1/308 ;
Abstract
A method and system consistent with the present invention parses text into syllables. The text is converted into a sequence of “phonemes,” basic units of pronounceable and audible speech, divided by syllables. The text may be converted into phonemes using a phonetic dictionary, and the phonemes transformed into another phoneme sequence using a set of transformation rules that are ranked for evaluation to determine the syllable barriers.