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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lajos Molnar, Dallas, TX (US);
Charles T. Hemphill, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/308 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/308 ;
Abstract
A text-to-pronunciation system ( ) includes a large training set of word pronunciations ( ) and an extractor for extracting language specific information from the training set to produce pronunciations for words not in its training set. A learner ( ) forms pronunciation guesses for words in the training set and for finding a transformation rule that improves the guesses. A rule applier ( ) applies the transformation rule found to guesses. The learner ( ) repeats the finding of another rule and the rule applier ( ) applies the new rule to find the rules that improves the guesses the most.