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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2005
Applicants:
Geert Coorman, Kortrijk, BE;
Vincent Pollet, Aalbeke, BE;
Stefaan Van Gerven, Heverlee, BE;
Mario DE Bock, Ronse, BE;
Bert Van Coile, Bruges, BE;
Jan DE Moortel, Kortrijk, BE;
Inventors:
Geert Coorman, Kortrijk, BE;
Vincent Pollet, Aalbeke, BE;
Stefaan Van Gerven, Heverlee, BE;
Mario De Bock, Ronse, BE;
Bert Van Coile, Bruges, BE;
Jan De Moortel, Kortrijk, BE;
Assignee:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method generate synthesized speech through concatenation of speech segments that are derived from a large prosodically-rich corpus of speech segments including using an additional dictionary of speech segment identifier sequences.