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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2005
Steven Lawrence Davis, Madelia, MN (US);
Shane Fetters, St. Peter, MN (US);
David Eugene Schulz, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Beverly Gustafson, St. Peter, MN (US);
Louise Loney, Elysian, MN (US);
Steven Lawrence Davis, Madelia, MN (US);
Shane Fetters, St. Peter, MN (US);
David Eugene Schulz, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Beverly Gustafson, St. Peter, MN (US);
Louise Loney, Elysian, MN (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are various elements of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The embodiments in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. One embodiment of the invention relates to a method of generating a database for a TTS voice. The method comprises matching every spoken word associated with a TTS voice database with a smallest set of possible pronunciations for each word. The smallest set is generated by automatically determining a dialect and linguistic context using linguistic rules, empirically determining idiosyncratic speaker characteristics and determining a subject domain. The method further comprises dynamically generating a pronunciation dictionary on a word-by-word basis using the smallest set.