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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1999
Peter Veprek, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Steve Pearson, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jean-Claude Junqua, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A speech synthesis system for generating voice dialog for a message frame having a fixed and a variable portion. A prosody module selects a prosodic template for each of the fixed and variable portions wherein at least one portion comprises a phrase of multiple words. An acoustic module selects an acoustic template for each of the fixed and variable portions wherein at least one portion comprises a phrase of multiple words. A frame generator concatenates the respective prosodic templates and acoustic templates. A sound module generates the voice dialog in accordance with the concatenated prosodic and acoustic templates.