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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1998
Robert E. Donovan, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
Martin Franz, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Salim E. Roukos, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Jeffrey Sorensen, Seymour, CT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present invention, a method for providing generation of speech includes the steps of providing input to be acoustically produced, comparing the input to training data or application specific splice files to identify one of words and word sequences corresponding to the input for constructing a phone sequence, using a search algorithm to identify a segment sequence to construct output speech according to the phone sequence and concatenating segments and modifying characteristics of the segments to be substantially equal to requested characteristics. Application specific data is advantageously used to make pertinent information available to synthesize both the phone sequence and the output speech. Also, described is a system for performing operations in accordance with the disclosure.