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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2004
Applicants:
Min Chu, Beijing, CN;
Chao Huang, Chaoyang District, CN;
Inventors:
Min Chu, Beijing, CN;
Chao Huang, Chaoyang District, CN;
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/20 (2006.01); G10L 15/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/04 (2006.01); G10L 15/28 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2006.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 13/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A phone set for use in speech processing such as speech recognition or text-to-speech conversion is used to model or form syllables of a tonal language having a plurality of different tones. Each syllable includes an initial part that can be glide dependent and a final part. The final part includes a plurality of phones. Each phones carries partial tonal information such that the phones taken together implicitly and jointly represent the different tones.