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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2005
Applicants:
Wei Z W Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xi Jun MA, Beijing, CN;
Ling Jin, Beijing, CN;
Hai Xin Chai, Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Wei Z W Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xi Jun Ma, Beijing, CN;
Ling Jin, Beijing, CN;
Hai Xin Chai, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for distance definition in a text-to-speech conversion system by applying Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to a distance definition. According to an embodiment, the text that is to be subjected to text-to-speech conversion is analyzed to obtain a text with descriptive prosody annotation; clustering is performed for samples in the obtained text; and a GMM model is generated for each cluster, to determine the distance between the sample and the corresponding GMM model.