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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2004
David A. Kapilow, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Kenneth H. Rosen, Middletown, NJ (US);
Juergen Schroeter, New Providence, NJ (US);
David A. Kapilow, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Kenneth H. Rosen, Middletown, NJ (US);
Juergen Schroeter, New Providence, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for generating a synthetic text-to-speech TTS voice are disclosed. A user is presented with at least one TTS voice and at least one voice characteristic. A new synthetic TTS voice is generated by blending a plurality of existing TTS voices according to the selected voice characteristics. The blending of voices involves interpolating segmented parameters of each TTS voice. Segmented parameters may be, for example, prosodic characteristics of the speech such as pitch, volume, phone durations, accents, stress, mis-pronunciations and emotion.