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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
May. 27, 2005
Applicants:
Qin Shi, Beijing, CN;
Wei Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Wei Bin Zhu, Beijing, CN;
Hai Xin Chai, Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
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 text to speech conversion and for adjusting a corpus. The method includes a text analysis step for parsing the text to obtain descriptive prosody annotations of the text based on a TTS model generated from a first corpus, a prosody parameter prediction step for predicting the prosody parameter of the text according to the result of the text analysis step, a speech synthesis step for synthesizing speech of the text based on the prosody parameter of the text, adjusting according to a target speech speed for the synthesized speech when necessary.